Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (37.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 27.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cottonwood Limestone Member (Beattie Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; packstone and bafflestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: R. S. Sawin and R.R. West. 2005. Paleoecology of the Permian (Wolfcampian) Phylloid Alga Calcipatera from an In Situ Occurrence in Kansas, U.S.A. Current Research in Earth Sciences 251(1) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 226180: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.06.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854 | |
| Ulvophyceae | |
|
Calcipatera cottonwoodensis Torres 1992 | |
| Shamovella | |
|
Shamovella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1951 | |
| Trilobita | |
|
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
| Bivalvia | |
|
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
| Brachiopoda | |
|
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
|
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |