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
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Idiognathodus warei n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Idiognathodus kansensis n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus chanutensis n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus minutus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Gondolella lingulata n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Gondolella sinuata n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Gondolella merrilli n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Subprioniodus sp. Smith 1907 conodont
Bryantodus rugosus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Prioniodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Prioniodinidae
Idioprioniodus camurus 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