Marion V, bed 5 (Permian of the United States)

Where: Marion County, Kansas (38.2° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 26.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wellington Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• This bed was designated Ten Foot Bed by Tasch (10 feet above the datum: top of the Annelly Gypsum).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Paul Tasch

• Repository: University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology)

Primary reference: R. J. Beckemeyer. 2018. A new genus and species of Blattogryllidae from Kansas with notes on Stereopterum rotundum Carpenter, 1950 (Euryptilonidae) in Oklahoma (Insecta: Polyneoptera: Eoblattida; Lower Permian). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 121:87-97 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193476: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Eoblattida - Blattogryllidae
Chiastogryllus taschi n. gen. n. sp.
Chiastogryllus taschi n. gen. n. sp. Beckemeyer 2018 insect