Kansas University campus (Lawrence Shale) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Douglas County, Kansas (38.0° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 30.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lawrence Shale Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Pennsylvanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Primary reference: A. A. Cridland and J. E. Morris. 1963. Taeniopteris, Walchia and Dichophyllum in the Pennsylvanian System of Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 44:71-85 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24639: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 13.08.2002, edited by Hallie Sims

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lycopsida
  -
Lycopsida indet.
"Lycopod cones"
Lycopsida indet.
"Lycopod leaves"
Polypodiopsida
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
"Alethopteris grandini" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris), "Alethopteris sullivanti" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
"Alethopteris grandini" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
(Brongn.) Goepp
"Alethopteris sullivanti" = Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
Lesquereux
unclassified
  -
Tracheophyta indet.
"Articulate cones"
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Sphenophyllum oblongifolium
(Ger. & Kaul.) Ung.
Sigillariaceae
  - Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria brardii
Brongniart