PT16LMSh, Pottawatomie County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.3° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° N, 26.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Schroyer Limestone Member (Wreford Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• lower middle Schroyer Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous shale

• normal salinity, low turbulence, shallow-marine waters, perhaps between 3 to 16 meters deep, epeiric platform

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: J. F. Pachut and R. J. Cuffey. 1999. Stratigraphic and Geographic Bryozoan Abundance Gradients in the Calcareous Shales of the Wreford Megacyclothem (Lower Permian, Kansas). The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions New Series (10)1-17 [T. Olszewski/K. Tracy/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50999: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 25.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• only bryozoans
Gymnolaemata
 Ctenostomata - Vinellidae
Condranema magna Condra and Elias 1944
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
"Protoretepora elliptica" = Polypora elliptica
"Protoretepora elliptica" = Polypora elliptica Rogers 1900
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella tenax" = Rectifenestella tenax Ulrich 1888
Minilya binodata Condra 1902
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora carbonaria Worthen 1875