Main Street cut, Union Station (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Missouri (39.1° N, 94.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 27.7° W)

When: Quivira Member (Cherryvale Shale Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Kansas City group, Chanute shale (Quivira), directly underlying Cement City limestone. PJW: "Cherryville" must be an misreading of Cherryvale

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Gunnell Collection

Primary reference: F. H. Gunnell. 1933. Conodonts and fish remains from the Cherokee, Kansas City, and Wabaunsee Groups of Missouri and Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 7(3):261-297 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132613: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 23.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Prioniodinidae
Idioprioniodus camurus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Subprioniodus sp. Smith 1907 conodont
Bryantodus rugosus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Prioniodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Gondolella merrilli n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Gondolella sinuata n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Gondolella lingulata n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Idiognathodus kansensis n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Idiognathodus warei n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus chanutensis n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus minutus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
"Palaeoniscus sp." = Palaeoniscum
"Palaeoniscus sp." = Palaeoniscum Blainville 1818
Chondrichthyes
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Fortscottella gemmicula n. sp. Gunnell 1933 shark