Scaphopod and associated specimines from the Wyandotte LS of Eastern Kansas (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Johnson County, Kansas (38.8° N, 94.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° S, 27.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Farley Member (Wyandotte Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Collection occurred in the upper 3m interval of the Farley Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

• The Farley Member consists of thinly bedded limestone interclated with shale.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. J. Gentile. 1974. A new species of Dentalium from the Pennsylvanian of Eastern Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 48(6):1213-1216 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11095: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 13.07.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium (Paleodentalium) kansasense" = Paleodentalium kansasense
"Dentalium (Paleodentalium) kansasense" = Paleodentalium kansasense Gentile 1974 tusk shell