Road cut on Hwy I-70, Geary Co., Kinney Ls. (Permian of the United States)

Where: Geary County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 26.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kinney Limestone Member (Matfield Shale Formation), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Vertebrate remains extracted from the same horizons throughout the Wreford Megacyclothem, Chase Group, Gearyan Stage, Lower Permian.

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: acetic

• Repository: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas (KUVP)

Primary reference: H. Schultze. 1985. Marine to Onshore Vertebrates in the Lower Permian of Kansas and their Paleoenvironmental Implications. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 113:1-18 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130823: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 14.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Xenacanthida - Orthacanthidae
Orthacanthus sp. Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch
KUVP 82672