ammonites
Junction City, SW of Highway 40 and 77 junction, Geary County (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Kellett 46

Where: Kansas (39.0° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 25.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wreford Formation, Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: B. Kellett. 1933. Ostracodes of the Upper Pennsylvanian and the Lower Permian strata of Kansas: I. the Aparchitidae, Beyrichiidae, Glyptopleuridae, Kloedenellidae, Kirkbyiidae, and Youngiellidae. Journal of Paleontology 7(1):59-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110318: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.06.2011

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