Where: Cherokee County, Kansas (37.2° N, 94.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 30.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cherokee Shale Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• cap ls of Mineral coal

Environment/lithology: black, argillaceous limestone

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: J. Williams, W. G. Pierce, and W. H. Courtier. 1937. Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas. In W. G.Pierce, W. H.Courtier (eds.), Geology and Coal Resources of the Southeastern Kansas Coal Field in Crawford, Cherokee, and Labette Counties 24:92-122 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 986: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 10.03.1999

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