Lone Star Lake spillway (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kansas (38.8° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 28.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lawrence Shale Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Forest City Basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Scott Garrett

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Studies of North American Carboniferous Insects: Part 8. New Paleodictyoptera from Kansas, USA. Psyche 99(2-3):141-146 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122494: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Lycocercidae
Lycodus garretti n. gen. n. sp.
Lycodus garretti n. gen. n. sp. Carpenter 1992 winged insect