KSGS 7910 - Lyon Co. [Caneyville Limestone] (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to barnacle and mollusc host. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Orthomyalina slocomi Sayre 1931 clam
Thecostraca
 Lithoglyptida - Trypetesidae
Trypetesa caveata Tomlinson 1963 barnacle