Railroad cut, Cowley Co., up. Threemile Ls.: Sakmarian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
KUVP 82668
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Cowley
Coordinates: 37.3° North, 96.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° South, 27.5° West
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Sakmarian
Age range of interval:293.52000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chase Formation:Wreford Limestone Member:Threemile Ls.
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Threemile Limestone
Vertebrate remains extracted from the same horizons throughout the Wreford Megacyclothem, Chase Group, Gearyan Stage, Lower Permian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow lithified cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:acetic
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas (KUVP)
Metadata
Database number:130814
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-07-14 05:25:51 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-14 05:25:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42284. H. Schultze. 1985. Marine to Onshore Vertebrates in the Lower Permian of Kansas and their Paleoenvironmental Implications. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 113:1-18 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]