Kinney Clay Pit, Dunbarella bed (KU coll) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 37.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Astrasado Formation (Madera Group), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Recent fusulinid and conodont studies indicate a middle Missourian (Kasimovian) age - Lucas et al., 2011

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Estuarine environment

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by W. Hawes in 2013

• Repository: Museum of the University of Kansas, Lawrence (KUMIP)

Primary reference: J. A. Dunlop, Y. Wang, P. A. Selden and P. Krautz. 2014. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Pennsylvanian Astrasado Formation of the Kinney Brick Quarry, New Mexico. Paleontological Contributions 9:1-6 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159023: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Eophrynidae
Pleophrynus hawesi n. sp. Dunlop et al. 2014
KUMIP 340491