Lone Star Lake spillway (Ulster Museum coll.): Kasimovian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida - Scorpiones
Corniops mapesii n. gen., n. sp. Jeram 1994
1 specimen
BELUM K14082
Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeopisthacanthidae
Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni n. sp. Jeram 1994
1 specimen
BELUM K14086
Cryptoscorpius americanus n. gen., n. sp. Jeram 1994
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]