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 4.3m 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 bed as equivalent to the Glenpool limestone in the Lost Branch section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; 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 10793: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 25.06.2001

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