MS21UUH, Morris County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Morris County, Kansas (39.7° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 26.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Havensville Member (Wreford Formation), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Upper Havensville Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous shale

• normal salinity, low turbulence, shallow-marine waters, perhaps between 3 to 16 meters deep, epeiric platform

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: D. J. Warner and R. J. Cuffey. 1973. Fistuliporacean bryozoans of the Wreford megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 65:1-24 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120240: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• only bryozoans
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae