Where: Kansas (38.7° N, 96.9° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 25.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Grant Member (Winfield Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M.J. Everhart, P.A. Everhart in 2002
Primary reference: M. J. Everhart and P. A. Everhart. 2003. First report of the Paleozoic shark, Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope 1891 from the Lower Permian of Morris County Kansas. Kansas Academy of Science Abstracts 22:13 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149352: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope 1891 elasmobranch |