Pony Creek Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 27.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pony Creek Member (Wood Siding Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Approximately 2 m below the Brownville Limestone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, nodular, black shale

• Interpreted as a transition from an estuary or tidal flat to nonmarine soils
• Fissile black shale with brown limestone nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the OSU, UCM, USNM

• Repository: University of Kansas (KUMIP)

Primary reference: L. E. Babcock and D. F. Merriam. 2000. Horseshoe crabs (Arthropoda: Xiphosura) from the Pennsylvanian of Kansas and elsewhere. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 103:76-94 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216069: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Paleolimulidae
Paleolimulus signatus
Paleolimulus signatus Beecher 1904
OSU 46358-46363; YPM 170019-170024; KUMIP 286276-286281; USNM 465528, 484407-484411