Where: Kansas (38.9° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 26.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Speiser Member (Wreford Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• The Paraparchites punctatus-rich layer is located 40–44 cm below the top of the Speiser Shale.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, muddy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Watabe and R. L. Kaesler. 2004. Ontogeny of a new species of Paraparchites (Ostracoda) from the Lower Permian Speiser Shale in Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 78:603-611 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120247: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2011

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