Kinney Clay Pit (KU coll) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 37.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Shadow Member (Wild Cow Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Recent fusulinid and conodont studies indicate a middle Missourian (Kasimovian) age - Lucas et al., 2011

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

• No information given.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1984

• Repository: KUVP (Vertebrate Paleontology collection, Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas)

Primary reference: M. D. Gottfried. 1987. A Pennsylvanian aeduelliform (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from North America with comments on aeduelliform interrelationships. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 61:141-148 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139343: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Aeduelliformes - Aeduellidae
cf. Bourbonnella sp. Heyler 1967
KUVP 85296