1.5 miles NW of Eskridge (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Roadcut on Kansas State Highway 99

Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (38.9° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 26.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Speiser Shale Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, muddy shale

• Tan mud shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. P. Schultze and B. Foreman. 1981. A new gymnarthrid microsaur from the Lower Permian of Kansas with a review of the tuditanomorph microsaurs (Amphibia). Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kan 91:1-25 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177144: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 21.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Osteichthyes
 Recumbirostra - Gymnarthridae
Euryodus bonneri n. sp.
Euryodus bonneri n. sp. Schultze and Foreman 1981 amniote
KU VP 47367 (Holotype; early complete skull with left lower jaw in place)