Also known as Blue Rapids Shale

Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.4° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 24.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Council Grove Formation, Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

• Blue Rapids Shale, just below the Funston Limesone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. W. Coldiron and W. D. Coldiron in 1974

• Repository: University of Kansas (KU)

Primary reference: C. F. Wellstead. 1991. Taxonomic revision of the Lysorophia, Permo-Carboniferous lepospondyl amphibians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 209:1-90 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178666: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 10.05.2016

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