USGS 7811-Cherokee Co., Kansas (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• fossils weathered out on dump, but thought to come from this horizon

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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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? Aviculipinna sp.
originally entered as "Aviculipinna? sp."
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Patellostium montfortianum" = Cymatospira montfortianus
"Patellostium montfortianum" = Cymatospira montfortianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Clinopistha sp. Meek and Worthen 1870 Awning Clam
subspecies levis - originally entered as "Clinopistha radiata"
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella sp. Hall 1858 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens
"Mesolobus decipiens" = Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens Girty 1912