Quarry in northwestern Franklin County: Gzhelian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus jewetti n. sp. Miller 1957
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Franklin
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 95.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.3° South, 27.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
Stage:Gzhelian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Gzhelian
Age range of interval:303.70000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oread Member:Plattsmouth Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: University of Kansas Natural History Museum
Metadata
Database number:132334
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-14 06:17:45 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-14 06:17:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42609. H. W. Miller. 1957. Petalodus jewetti, a new species of fossil bradyodont fish from Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 60:82-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]