ammonites
USGS 7811-Cherokee Co., Kansas (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Cherokee County, Kansas (37.2° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.6° S, 29.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cherokee Shale Formation, Desmoinesian (313.8 - 305.9 Ma)

• sh less than 6 feet below Ardmore ls

Environment/lithology: shale

• fossils weathered out on dump, but thought to come from this horizon

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: J. Williams, W. G. Pierce and W. H. Courtier. 1937. Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas. Geology and Coal Resources of the Southeastern Kansas Coal Field in Crawford, Cherokee, and Labette Counties, by W.G.Pierce and W.H.Courtier,Bulletin 24 of the State Geological Survey of Kansas, p.92-122. 24:92-122 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 971: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 10.03.1999, edited by Austin Hendy