Where: Lyon County, Kansas (38.5° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 28.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Caneyville Limestone Formation (Wabaunsee Group), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Caneyville Limestone of the Wabaunsee Group. AGE: Virgilian (Gzhelian of international scale; Caneyville is now Plumb Shale Mb of Wood Siding Formation, uppermost Virgilian). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated. REPOSITORY: Kansas Geological Survey.
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 159906: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Orthomyalina slocomi Sayre 1931 clam | |
Thecostraca | |
Trypetesa caveata Tomlinson 1963 barnacle |