Where: Cherokee County, Kansas (37.2° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 30.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cherokee Shale Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• sh less than 6 feet below Ardmore ls
Environment/lithology: shale
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: J. Williams, W. G. Pierce, and W. H. Courtier. 1937. Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas. In W. G.Pierce, W. H.Courtier (eds.), Geology and Coal Resources of the Southeastern Kansas Coal Field in Crawford, Cherokee, and Labette Counties 24:92-122 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 971: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 10.03.1999, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Patellostium montfortianum" = Cymatospira montfortianus
"Patellostium montfortianum" = Cymatospira montfortianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Clinopistha sp. Meek and Worthen 1870 Awning Clam subspecies levis - originally entered as "Clinopistha radiata"
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Astartella sp. Hall 1858 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855 | |
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
"Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens
"Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens Girty 1912 |