West Independence, U.S. Rt. 160 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as WINK

Where: Montgomery County, Kansas (37.2° N, 95.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 29.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stanton Formation (Lansing Group), Missourian (305.9 - 303.4 Ma)

• "silty shales beneath the Timber Hill Siltstone Bed... Eudora-Rock Lake Shale... equivalent to the upper Stoner Limestone Member"; "the last major transgressive event of the Missourian Stage"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty shale

• "nearshore"
• "silty shales"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• "Bulk samples [from this collection and others] weighed between 5 and 10 kg and were either oven dried, soaked in light kerosene, and washed through a 500 micrometer sieve or simply washed with water through the sieve"

Primary reference: P. F. Holterhoff. 1997. Filtration models, guilds, and biofacies: crinoid paleoecology of the Stanton Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Midcontinent, North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 130(1-4):177-208 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72366: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• counts pertain to individuals, but "basals, radials, and primibrachials" that are diagnostic but not unique within an individual "were counted in multiples of five... e.g., the first five plates equals one individual"
Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Pachylocrinidae
Plummericrinus sp. Moore and Laudon 1943 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Apographiocrinidae
Apographiocrinus sp. Moore and Plummer 1940 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Blothrocrinidae
Elibatocrinus sp. Moore 1940 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Galateacrinidae
Galateacrinus sp. Moore 1940 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Exocrinidae
Exocrinus sp. Strimple 1949 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Cromyocrinidae
Cromyocrinidae indet. Bather 1890 Sea lily
Ulocrinus sp. Miller and Gurley 1890 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Pirasocrinidae
Pirasocrinidae indet. Moore and Laudon 1943 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Stellarocrinidae
Stellarocrinus sp. Strimple 1940 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Pelecocrinidae
Exoriocrinus sp. Strimple and Moore 1971 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Catacrinidae
Graffhamicrinus sp. Strimple 1961 Sea lily
Delocrinus sp. Miller and Gurley 1890 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Erisocrinidae
Erisocrinus sp. Meek and Worthen 1865 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Scytalocrinidae indet. Moore and Laudon 1943 Sea lily
 Ampelocrinida - Ampelocrinidae
Ampelocrinidae indet. Kirk 1942 Sea lily
 Cladida - Cymbiocrinidae
Cymbiocrinidae indet. Strimple and Watkins 1969 Sea lily