Blu Mont Hill, near Manhattan: Gzhelian, Kansas
collected by Donald McLaren

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodontidae indet. Newberry and Worthen 1866
Petalodus informal sp. B
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Riley
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 96.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.4° South, 28.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch: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:Foraker Member:Hughes Creek Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 3 inches of brown shale on top of the upper fusulinid bed of the Hughes Creek shale, just below the base of the Long Creek limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown lithified "shale"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Donald McLaren
Collection method comments: Repository: University of Kansas Geological Museum
Metadata
Database number:132336
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-14 06:30:48 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-14 06:30:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42610. H. W. Miller and R. J. Mann. 1958. Petalodus (Bradyodont) from the Permian of Kansas and Oklahoma. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 61:97-103 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]