N of Reece locality, Greenwood County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (37.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 27.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cottonwood Limestone Member (Beattie Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; packstone and bafflestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. S. Sawin and R.R. West. 2005. Paleoecology of the Permian (Wolfcampian) Phylloid Alga Calcipatera from an In Situ Occurrence in Kansas, U.S.A. Current Research in Earth Sciences 251(1) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226180: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Shamovella
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Shamovella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1951
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam