Highway 73W, 0.25 mile west of Oskaloosa (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Kellett 1

Where: Kansas (39.2° N, 95.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 0.7° N, 25.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Deer Creek Formation (Shawnee Group), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Lower(?) Deer Creek Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: B. Kellett. 1933. Ostracodes of the Upper Pennsylvanian and the Lower Permian strata of Kansas: I. the Aparchitidae, Beyrichiidae, Glyptopleuridae, Kloedenellidae, Kirkbyiidae, and Youngiellidae. Journal of Paleontology 7(1):59-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132988: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
"Bythocypris pediformis" = Pseudobythocypris pediformis
"Bythocypris pediformis" = Pseudobythocypris pediformis Knight 1928 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites magnus Kellett 1933 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Knightinidae
Knightina ampla n. sp. Kellett 1933 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kellettinidae
"Knightina minuta" = Kindlella minuta
"Knightina minuta" = Kindlella minuta Harris and Lalicker 1932 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Coryellina firma Kellett 1935 ostracod