Small tributary to Saline River, 5.5 miles NNW of Fairport (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Ellis County, Kansas (39.1° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 64.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Fairport Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Middle or upper part of the Fairport Chalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hattin

• Repository: Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, Department of Geology, The University of Kansas

Primary reference: D. E. Hattin. 1977. Articulated lepadomorph cirripeds from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas: Family Stramentidae. Journal of Paleontology 51(4):797-825 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210325: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
Stramentum elegans Hattin 1977 barnacle