Lone Star Lake: Pennsylvanian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Medullosaceae
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Neuropteris ovata
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Hoff | ||||||||||
Neuropteris scheuchzeri
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Hoff | ||||||||||
Equisetopsida
- Sphenophyllales
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Sphenophyllum oblongifolium
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(Ger. & Kaul.) Ung. | ||||||||||
Sphenopteridae
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Sphenopteris sp.
Sternberg 1825
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Sphenopteris obtusiloba
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Brongniart | ||||||||||
Sigillariaceae
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Sigillaria brardii
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Brongniart | ||||||||||
Cordaitales
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Cordaianthus sp.
Grand'Eury 1877
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Cordaicarpus sp.
Geinitz 1862
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Ginkgoopsida
- Callistophytales
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Dicksonites pluckenetii
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Schloth | ||||||||||
Pinopsida
- Cordaitanthales
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Cordaites sp.
Unger 1850
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unclassified
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Aphlebia sp.
Presl 1838
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Pteropsida
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Alethopteris grandini
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spelled with current rank as Pecopteris (Alethopteris) | ||||||||||
(Brongn.) Goepp | ||||||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Marattiales
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Asterotheca arborescens
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(Schloth.) Stur | ||||||||||
Asterotheca cf. hemiteloides
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(Brongn.) Grand'Eury | ||||||||||
Ptychocarpus candolliana
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Brongniart | ||||||||||
Ptychocarpus feminaeformis
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Schloth | ||||||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Marattiales
- Marattiaceae
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Acitheca polymorpha
Brongniart 1879
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Brongniart | ||||||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
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Annularia mucronata
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Schenk | ||||||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Asterophyllites equisetiformis
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(Schloth.) Brongniart | ||||||||||
Asterophyllites longifolius
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(Stbg.) Brongniart | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Douglas |
Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 95.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 4.6° South, 29.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4-5 | ||
*Period: | Late/Upper Carboniferous | ||
Key time interval: | Pennsylvanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 323.20000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Lawrence Shale |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | lagoonal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 24638 | ||
Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | H. Lindon |
Modifier: | H. Sims | Research group: | paleobotany |
Created: | 2002-08-13 08:27:02 | Last modified: | 2002-10-17 14:36:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-13 08:27:02 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4122. | A. A. Cridland and J. E. Morris. 1963. Taeniopteris, Walchia and Dichophyllum in the Pennsylvanian System of Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 44:71-85 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski] |