Road cut just north of I-70 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Douglas County, Kansas (39.0° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 27.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beil Limestone Member (Lecompton Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Kansas Museum of Natural History (KUVP)

Primary reference: M. C. Hansen. 1980. New occurrences of the petalodontiform chondrichthyan Megactenopetalus in the Pennsylvanian of Oklahoma and Kansas. Oklahoma Geology Notes 40:185-189 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146376: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Pristodontidae
Megactenopetalus kaibabanus David 1944 chimaera