Railroad cut just west of Shawnee-Douglas county line (shaly beds) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Kellett 18

Where: Kansas (39.0° N, 95.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 27.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ervine Creek Member (Deer Creek Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Shaly beds just above loc. 17

• 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 132993: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella cushmani n. sp. Kellett 1933 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae
"Jonesina distenta" = Ellipsella distenta
"Jonesina distenta" = Ellipsella distenta Kellett 1933 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Youngiellidae
Moorites minutus Warthin 1930 ostracod
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina fittsi2 Kellett 1935 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Monoceratina lewisi2 Harris and Lalicker 1932 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia garrisonensis1 Upson 1933 ostracod
Bairdia beedei1 Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
Bairdia chasae n. sp.1 Kellett 1934 ostracod
"Bairdia seminalis" = Cryptobairdia seminalis1 Knight 1928 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia compressa2 Kellett 1935 ostracod
Healdia cuneata2 Coryell and Billings 1932 ostracod