Also known as TOQK
Where: Montgomery County, Kansas (37.1° N, 95.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 29.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tyro Oolite Member (Stanton Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• "top of the Tyro Oolite"; "the last major transgressive event of the Missourian Stage"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; argillaceous wackestone
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 72377: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Laudonocrinidae indet. Moore and Strimple 1973 Sea lily | |
Stellarocrinus sp. Strimple 1940 Sea lily | |
Scytalocrinidae indet. Moore and Laudon 1943 Sea lily | |
Exocrinus sp. Strimple 1949 Sea lily | |
Erisocrinus sp. Meek and Worthen 1865 Sea lily | |
Delocrinus sp. Miller and Gurley 1890 Sea lily | |
Apographiocrinus sp. Moore and Plummer 1940 Sea lily | |
Pirasocrinidae indet. Moore and Laudon 1943 Sea lily | |
Elibatocrinus sp. Moore 1940 Sea lily | |
Ampelocrinidae indet. Kirk 1942 Sea lily | |
Euonychocrinus sp. Strimple 1940 Sea lily | |
Cibolocrinus sp. Weller 1909 Sea lily | |
Paramphicrinus sp. Strimple and Moore 1971 Sea lily |