Also known as TMQK

Where: Montgomery County, Kansas (37.3° N, 95.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 29.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Captain Creek Limestone Member (Stanton Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• "middle to upper portions of the Captain Creek Limestone Member algal mound complex"; "the last major transgressive event of the Missourian Stage"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; argillaceous packstone and grainstone

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 72371: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.06.2007

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