South side of Secondary road (Hertha Fm., Bourbon Co., KS): Missourian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Donaldinidae
Donaldina sp. Knight 1933
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella sp. Hall 1858
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
? Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869
originally entered as "?Paleoneilo sp."
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
Scaphopoda
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Bourbon
Coordinates: 37.9° North, 94.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.1° South, 28.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Missourian
Age range of interval:305.90000 - 303.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hertha Member:Mound City Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:124
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2006-08-07 00:47:13
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12. J. M. Malinky and P. H. Heckel. 1998. Paleoecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Palaios 13(4):311-334 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]