Where: Kansas (38.9° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 28.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Unnamed shale unit above Amazonia Limestone Member at top of Lawrence Formation. Basal Virgilian or uppermost Kasimovian (the Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary is near the base of the overlying Oread Formation; Schmitz & Davydov, 2012).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, University of Kansas

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 122495: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2011

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