Where: Chase County, Kansas (38.2° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 27.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Threemile Shale Member (Wreford Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• middle Threemile Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, calcareous mudstone

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 51118: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 28.05.2005

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