KSGS 4716 - Baldwin [Vinland Shale] (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as USNM 139766

Where: Douglas County, Kansas (38.8° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 28.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vinland Shale Member (Stranger Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Stranger Formation (=Cass Formation) is now the uppermost unit of the Missourian (not Virgilian), equivalent to uppermost Kasimovian in the international scale.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• lithified based on preservation of specimens

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTOR: Not stated. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: J. T. Tomlinson. 1963. Acrothoracican Barnacles in Paleozoic Myalinids. Journal of Paleontology 37(1):164-166 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159905: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to barnacle and mollusc host. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina perattenuata
Septimyalina perattenuata Meek and Hayden 1858 clam
Thecostraca
 Lithoglyptida - Trypetesidae
Trypetesa lampas n. sp.
Trypetesa lampas n. sp. Hancock 1849 barnacle