Where: Kansas (38.6° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 25.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wellington Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• The Elmo limestone itself is a chalky, soft, almost white deposit, about five feet thick; only the very bottom, more massive layer of this stratum contains insects.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by A. B. Klots, V. S. L. Pate, W. D. Sargent in 1933; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: E. B. Klots. 1944. Notes on the Protodonata and Protozygoptera of the Lower Permian of Kansas. American Museum Novitates 1260:1-7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111365: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Tupus readi" = Shenzhousia readi Carpenter 1933 griffinfly
Oligotypus tillyardi Carpenter 1931 griffinfly
Tupus sp. Sellards 1906 griffinfly | |
Kennedya mirabilis Tillyard 1925 winged insect | |
"Kennedya (Progoneura) minuta" = Progoneura minuta
"Kennedya (Progoneura) minuta" = Progoneura minuta Carpenter 1931 winged insect |