Also known as Outcrop 15 of Heckel (1991)
Where: Bourbon County, Kansas (37.8° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 29.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lost Branch Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• Unnamed gray shale interval is as much as 4.5m thick in Kansas and Missouri and 7.6m thick in NE Oklahoma. It commonly contains brachiopods, gastropods, crinoids, bryozoans and other marine fossils. Fig. 2 of Peppers 1997 puts this shale layer as equivalen to the Glenpool limestone in the Lost Branch Section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; 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 10792: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lycopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Convolutispora sp. Hoffmeister et al. 1955 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Vestigisporites | |
Vestigisporites sp. Balme and Hennelly | |
Cyclogranisporites | |
Limitisporites | |
Limitisporites sp. Leschik 1956 | |
unclassified | |
Alisporites | |
Alisporites sp. Daugherty 1941 | |
Punctatisporites | |
Potonieisporites | |
Sphenopsida | |
Florinites | |