Where: Geary County, Kansas (38.7° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 25.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Speiser Member (Wreford Formation), Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)
• Upper Speiser Shale
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: chemical, sieve,
Primary reference: R. J. Cuffey. 1967. Bryozoan Tabulipora carbonaria in Wreford megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Bryozoa 1:1-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106979: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (attribution-noncommercial-no derivatives)