US69 onramp in Louisburg (Wyandotte Fm., Miami Co., KS) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Wyandotte County, Kansas (38.6° N, 94.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 28.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Quindaro Shale Member (Wyandotte Formation), Missourian (305.9 - 303.4 Ma)

• "in lower Wann Fm. in OK"

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: J. M. Malinky and P. H. Heckel. 1998. Paleoecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Palaios 13(4):311-334 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801