Highway 50S, 0.5 miles W of Cottonwood Falls (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Kellett 59

Where: Kansas (38.4° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 26.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Garrison Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: B. Kellett. 1933. Ostracodes of the Upper Pennsylvanian and the Lower Permian strata of Kansas: I. the Aparchitidae, Beyrichiidae, Glyptopleuridae, Kloedenellidae, Kirkbyiidae, and Youngiellidae. Journal of Paleontology 7(1):59-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110315: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
"Amphissites pinguis" = Shleesha pinguis
"Amphissites pinguis" = Shleesha pinguis Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Knightinidae
Knightina bassleri Kellett 1933 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Sansabellidae
"Jonesina bolliaformis" = Sansabella bolliaformis
"Jonesina bolliaformis" = Sansabella bolliaformis Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina edmistonae2 Harris and Lalicker 1932 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
"Bairdia marmorea" = Bairdia beedei1 Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
Bairdia hurwitzi3 Coryell and Booth 1933 ostracod
Rectobairdia symmetrica3 Cooper 1946 ostracod