Lone Star Lake spillway (Ulster Museum coll.): Kasimovian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida
- Scorpiones
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Corniops mapesii n. gen., n. sp.
Jeram 1994
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1 specimen | |||||||||
BELUM K14082 | ||||||||||
Arachnida
- Scorpiones
- Palaeopisthacanthidae
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Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni n. sp.
Jeram 1994
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1 specimen | |||||||||
BELUM K14086 | ||||||||||
Cryptoscorpius americanus n. gen., n. sp.
Jeram 1994
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44 specimens | |||||||||
BELUM K14083a, b, 14079, 14080, 14081 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas |
Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 95.4° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 3.1° South, 28.3° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
Stage: | Kasimovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
Key time interval: | Kasimovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 307 - 303.7 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Lawrence Shale | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Shale above Lower Williamsburg Coal |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified carbonaceous "shale" | ||
Environment: | estuary/bay | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Geology comments: Forest City Basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | adpression,original chitin |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | chemical,peroxide,sieve |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: Ulster Museum (BELUM) |
Metadata
Database number: | 153595 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
Created: | 2013-12-31 10:19:00 | Last modified: | 2013-12-31 10:19:00 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-12-31 10:19:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
49661. | A. J. Jeram. 1994. Carboniferous Orthosterni and their relationships to living scorpions. Palaeontology 37:513-550 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |