Kansas City (Daviess County) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Missouri (40.0° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° S, 26.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Kansas City Group, Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Layer 95 of the general section given by Broadhead in Pumpelly's Geological Report II 88-97 (1873). Lower part of the "Upper Coal Measures" - now the Missourian Kansas City Group.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, blue, carbonaceous shale

• Craton interior; subsidence likely due to dynamic topography
• Blue and bituminous shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

• Perhaps collected by Broadhead, but received from R.D. Lacoe

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1883. Older fossil insects west of the Mississippi. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:58-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114647: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
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Phthanocoris occidentalis n. gen. n. sp.
Phthanocoris occidentalis n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1883 insect
USNM 38157 (Lacoe 2030)