Site 3, Geary county (Permian of the United States)

Where: Kansas (39.0° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 27.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neva Member (Grenola Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Below Site 2 but somewhat higher in the section than Site 1 (still lower Permian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. Ewell in 2003

• Repository: Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas.

Primary reference: K. Ewell and M. J. Everhart. 2005. A Paleozoic shark fauna from the Council Grove Group (Lower Permian). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 108:71-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132374: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
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Amelacanthus sp. Maisey 1982 elasmobranch
 Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus sp., "Chomatodus arcuatus" = Petalodus arcuatus
Petalodus sp. chimaera
"Chomatodus arcuatus" = Petalodus arcuatus St. John 1870 chimaera