Where: Franklin County, Kansas (38.6° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° S, 27.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Tonganoxie Sandstone Member (Stranger Formation), Missourian to Missourian (306.0 - 298.9 Ma)
• Missourian-Virgilian Series
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified siltstone
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: L. A. Buatois, M. G. Mangano, C. G. Maples and W. P. Lanier. 1998. Ichnology of an Upper Carboniferous fluvio-estuarine paleovalley: The Tonganoxie Sandstone, Buildex Quarry, eastern Kansas, U.S.A. Journal of Paleontology 72(1):152-180 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Undichna | |
Dendroidichnites | |
Helminthoidichnites | |
Helminthopsis heiroglyphica, Circulichnis montanus, Gordia indianaensis, Diplichnites gouldi, Kouphichnium isp., Diplopodichnus biformis, Treptichnus pollardi, Treptichnus bifurcus
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