USGS 7893-Labette Co., Kansas (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Labette County, Kansas (37.0° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 30.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cherokee Shale Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• thin black ls above Stice coal

Environment/lithology: black, argillaceous carbonate

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: J. Williams, W. G. Pierce, and W. H. Courtier. 1937. Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas. In W. G.Pierce, W. H.Courtier (eds.), Geology and Coal Resources of the Southeastern Kansas Coal Field in Crawford, Cherokee, and Labette Counties 24:92-122 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1038: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 10.03.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida -
Desmoinesia muricatina Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Mesolobus mesolobus" = Chonetes mesoloba, "Mesolobus euampygus" = Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus
"Mesolobus mesolobus" = Chonetes mesoloba Norwood and Pratten 1855
"Mesolobus euampygus" = Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus Girty 1912
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer ? dunbari King 1933
originally entered as "Neospirifer dunbari?"
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
"Lophophyllum profundum" = Lophophyllidium profundum
"Lophophyllum profundum" = Lophophyllidium profundum Milne-Edward and Haime 1851 horn coral