GE13Sc, Cherty Limestone, Geary County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Geary County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 26.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Schroyer Member (Wreford Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Schroyer Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

• normal salinity, low turbulence, shallow-marine waters, perhaps between 3 to 16 meters deep, epeiric platform

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: R. J. Cuffey. 1967. Bryozoan Tabulipora carbonaria in Wreford megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Bryozoa 1:1-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106973: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• only bryozoans
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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora carbonaria
Tabulipora carbonaria Worthen 1875