Bellevue, Americus Limestone (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kansas (39.8° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 27.0° W)

When: Americus Member (Foraker Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Wabaunsee group, Americus Limestone

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 132617: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 23.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Streptognathodus acuminatus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus wabaunsensis n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus walteri n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus flangulatus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus elongatus n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus farmeri n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
Streptognathodus simplex n. sp. Gunnell 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Euprioniodina ? sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1926 conodont
Subprioniodus sp. Smith 1907 conodont
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
"Palaeoniscus sp." = Palaeoniscum
"Palaeoniscus sp." = Palaeoniscum Blainville 1818
Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes -
"Gunnellodus bellistriatus" = Gunnellodus bellistriatus, "Idiacanthus trispinosus n. sp." = Gunnellodus bellistriatus
"Gunnellodus bellistriatus" = Gunnellodus bellistriatus Gunnell 1933 elasmobranch
"Idiacanthus trispinosus n. sp." = Gunnellodus bellistriatus Gunnell 1933 elasmobranch
  -
Kirkella elliptica n. sp. Gunnell 1933 shark
Cooperella striata n. sp. Gunnell 1933 shark
Hammondella globosa n. gen. n. sp. Gunnell 1933 shark
Hammondella crassa n. sp. Gunnell 1933 shark
 Euselachii - Anachronistidae
Cooleyella simplex n. sp. Gunnell 1933 elasmobranch
Cooleyella quinqueloba n. sp. Gunnell 1933 elasmobranch
 Euselachii -
Holmesella crassa n. sp. Gunnell 1933 elasmobranch
Williamsella typicalis
  -
Williamsella striata
  -
Williamsella striata n. sp. Gunnell 1933