RY04LMSh, Riley County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Riley County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° N, 26.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• 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 ramp; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

• 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 51121: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 28.05.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• only bryozoans
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora carbonaria Worthen 1875
 Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella spinulosa" = Spinofenestella spinulosa, Minilya binodata
"Fenestella spinulosa" = Spinofenestella spinulosa Condra 1902
Minilya binodata Condra 1902
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae