Also known as Outcrop 19 of Heckel (1991)
Where: Labette County, Kansas (37.2° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 30.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lost Branch Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray shale
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
Primary reference: R. A. Peppers. 1997. Palynology of the Lost Branch Formation of Kansas--new insights on the major floral transition at the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian boundary. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 98:223-246 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10785: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 24.06.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lophotriletes | |
Vesicaspora | |
Vesicaspora spp. Schemel 1951 | |
Raistrickia | |
Spinosporites | |
Alisporites | |
Alisporites sp. Daugherty 1941 | |
Punctatisporites | |
Punctatisporites compactus, Punctatisporites minutus, Punctatisporites spp., Punctatisporites glaber
Punctatisporites spp. PotoniƩ and Kremp 1954
Punctatisporites glaber Playford 1962 | |
Endosporites | |
unclassified | |
Pinopsida | |
Pityosporites sp. Seward 1914 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Convolutispora sp. Hoffmeister et al. 1955 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Microreticulatisporites | |
Converrucosisporites | |
Converrucosisporites sp. PotoniƩ and Kremp 1954 | |
Lycopsida | |
Pilosisporites | |
Pilosisporites sp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 | |
Algae | |
Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849 | |
Anapiculatisporites | |
Potonieisporites | |
Triquitrites | |
Knoxisporites | |
Knoxisporites sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954 | |
Florinites | |
Sphenopsida | |
Calamospora spp. Schopf et al. | |
Limitisporites | |
Limitisporites sp. Leschik 1956 | |
Cyclogranisporites | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Foveosporites insculptus clubmoss | |
Reticulatisporites muricatus clubmoss | |
Thymospora | |
Cirratriradites | |
Cirratriradites spp. Wilson and Coe 1940 | |
Densosporites | |
Densosporites sp. Berry 1937 |