GE18Sp, Geary County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Geary County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 26.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• upper upper Speiser Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous mudstone

• 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 51145: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 28.05.2005

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 tenax" = Rectifenestella tenax
"Fenestella spinulosa" = Spinofenestella spinulosa Condra 1902
Minilya binodata Condra 1902
"Fenestella tenax" = Rectifenestella tenax Ulrich 1888
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Penniretepora curvula Richards 1959
"Protoretepora elliptica" = Polypora elliptica Rogers 1900
Polypora aestacella Moore 1929
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Gymnolaemata
 Ctenostomata - Vinellidae
Condranema magna Condra and Elias 1944