Emergency Spillway of Dam on Middle Caney Creek (Loc. 14) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Chataqua County, Kansas (37.2° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 29.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Streptognathodus vitali conodont zone, Kanwaka Formation (Shawnee Group), Rusavkinian (303.7 - 302.2 Ma)

• Lower Gzhelian, correlative to Rusavkian of Russian Platform.

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. K. Pabian and W. J. Rushlau. 2002. Taphonomic Analysis and Systematic Descriptions of Some Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Crinoids from Southeastern Nebraska, Eastern Kansas and Southwestern Iowa. Nebraska Geological Survey Paper Geological Survey Papers 20:1-45 [J. Alroy/B. Mamo/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124435: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Briony Mamo on 15.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Paradelocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Catacrinidae
Delocrinus vulgatus Moore and Plummer 1940 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Cromyocrinidae
Synarmocrinus iatani Strimple 1949 Sea lily