Midwest Minerals quarry, Coffeyville: Kasimovian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Cladodus occidentalis Leidy 1859
recombined as Glikmanius occidentalis
Bythiacanthus sp. StJohn and Worthen 1875
Chondrichthyes - Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Petrodus patelliformis McCoy 1848
Chondrichthyes - Listracanthidae
Listracanthus hystrix Newberry and Worthen 1870
Chondrichthyes - Eugeneodontiformes - Edestidae
Edestus cf. heinrichi (Newberry and Worthen 1870)
Chondrichthyes - Eugeneodontiformes - Caseodontidae
Caseodus eatoni Zangerl 1981
Chondrichthyes - Lagarodontidae
Lagarodus angustus (Romanovsky 1864)
Chondrichthyes - Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Deltodus cf. angularis Newberry and Worthen 1866
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus ohioensis Safford 1853
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Montgomery
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 95.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.2° South, 29.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
Stage:Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Kasimovian
Age range of interval:307.00000 - 303.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Marmaton Formation:Altamont Limestone Member:Lake Neosho Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Altamont Limestone is basal Kasimovian unit in midcontinent region (Schmitz & Davydov, 2012).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Authors favor interpretation of deposition in deep water under stagnant, dysaerobic conditions.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Fort Hays State Museum (FHSM) in Hays, Kansas. Additional fossils at the Bob Campbell Geology Museum (BCGM) in Clemson, South Carolina.
Metadata
Database number:132333
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-14 06:03:26 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-14 06:03:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42606. S. A. Hamm and D. J. Cicimurri. 2005. Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) chondrichthyans from the Lake Neosho Shale Member of the Altamont Limestone in Montgomery County, Kansas. Paludicola 5(2):65-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]