US Highway 40, 9.4 miles west of Lawrence, 3 miles south of Lecompton (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Douglas County, Kansas (39.0° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 27.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shumardites ammonoid zone, Ozawkie Member (Deer Creek Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Upper portion of member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal, brown, yellow, blue limestone

• One of the recessional phase of the Ozawie cyclothem.
• An oolitic rock, bluish in unweathered condition, but readily altered to yellow brown by exposure.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. C. Moore. 1941. Upper Pennsylvanian gastropods from Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas Bulletin 38(4):121-162 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111225: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Warthia kingi n. sp., Euphemites regulatus n. sp., Euphemites graffhami n. sp.
Warthia kingi n. sp. Moore 1941 snail
Euphemites regulatus n. sp. Moore 1941 snail
Euphemites graffhami n. sp. Moore 1941 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Knightites multicornutus n. gen. n. sp., Bellerophon graphicus n. sp., Bellerophon singularis n. sp.
Knightites multicornutus n. gen. n. sp. Moore 1941 snail
Bellerophon graphicus n. sp. Moore 1941 snail
Bellerophon singularis n. sp. Moore 1941 snail