Where: Kansas (38.7° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 25.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Elmo Limestone Member (Wellington Formation), Sakmarian to Sakmarian (293.5 - 272.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; gray dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, coalified
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. H. Gillespie and H. W. Pfefferkorn. 1986. Taeniopterid lamina on Phasmatocycas megasporophylls (Cycadales) from the Lower Permian of Kansas, U. S. A. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 49:99-116 [H. Sims/A. McGowan/H. Pfefferkorn]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32659: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 11.07.2003, edited by Hermann Pfefferkorn and Jason Cassara
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Glenopteris | |
Glenopteris sp. Sellards 1900 | |
Glenopteris splendens | |
Glenopteris splendens Sellards 1900 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
unclassified | |
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Pinopsida | |
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850 | |
Algae | |
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Equisetopsida | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
Callipteris cf. conferta Sternberg 1833 | |
Cycadopsida | |
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Taeniopteris coriacea | |
"Taeniopteris coriacea" = Spermopteris coriacea
"Taeniopteris coriacea" = Spermopteris coriacea Goeppert 1864 | |
Sandrewia texana | |
Sandrewia texana Mamay 1975 |