Kinney Brick Quarry Laggerstätte (KBQL)

Introduction

One place to start for information about Paleontology in general is the Wikipedia Paleontology Portal. New Mexico paleontology is discussed at the Wikipedia Paleontology in New Mexico site and at the paleontology section of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Finally, way down at the other end of the spectrum, is this page that contains information about paleontology and geology of a single location: the Kinney Brick Quarry Laggerstätte.
Kinney is fascinating because it contains fossils that reveal spectacular soft tissue details of the plants and animals that existed in New Mexico around 305 million years ago. Despite being currently located around 7000 feet up in the Manzanito mountains of New Mexico, in the distant past this site alternated between shallow ocean floor and shoreline where a river entered the ocean. It was much more New Orleans than New Mexico in the Pennsylvanian era.
My own interest in this site is enhanced by its proximity to my house. I live a mere seven miles (and 305 million years) from this ancient seashore and our family has participated in uncovering fossils from this location through our affiliation with the Friends of Paleontology group at The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science.
Please note that this amazing site is a commercial quarry that is privately owned by the Kinney Brick Company and entering the site without permission is illegal, uncool, and dangerous. Do the right thing and either get permission from the owners prior to your visit, or join up with one of the groups that has permission to conduct field trips to the site.

Kinney Brick Quarry Laggerstätte Geology and Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy is very useful for correlating the layers where fossils are found with the time period in which they were deposited. Luckily, there have been several studies of the stratigraphy in the region, and some papers devoted specifically to the stratigraphy of the KBQL. The recent work by Lucas et al. 2011 is very comprehensive and so I use dates and nomenclature here based upon that paper. In terms of time, they place the KBQL in the Kasimovian (=Missourian) stage of the Pennsylvanian subsystem (late Carboniferous) so somewhere around 303 to 307 million years ago. In terms of stratigraphy, the KBQL is in the Tinajas member of the Atrasado formation.

Kinney Brick Quarry Laggerstätte Fossil Record

This section is still in the early stages, but it is my hope that it will eventually document all of the known species found at KBQL. Ideally, this list would be arranged in a beautiful tree of life style where the proximity of the species to one another was determined solely based upon their evolutionary relationships. However, that is a constantly moving target as more information becomes available and researchers reinterpret previous information. Species are listed acording to their traditional biological classifications (using the Global Biodiversity Information Facility where possible). Unfortunately, the taxonomic data on fossils is so fragmented that sometimes there are entries in the GBIF that contradict other entries in the same database. In particular, the GBIF has multiple versions of the tree of life that differ right from the top. The three relevant branches there are the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (labeled GBIF here), the branch from the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (labeled IRMNG), and the branch from the English Wikipedia - Species Pages (labeled EWSP). Links directly to the English version of Wikipedia are labeled Wikipedia. The entries are listed alphabetically at each group: subgroup. Subgroups are only listed when applicable.
Kingdom
[Wikipedia Kingdom]
Phylum
[Wikipedia Phylum: Subphylum]
Class
[Wikipedia Class]
Order
[Wikipedia Order]
Family
[Wikipedia Family]
Genus
[Wikipedia Genus]
Genus species
General discussion about the species.
• Published records of this species at KBQL.

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Animalia
[GBIF Animalia] [IRMNG Animalia] [Wikipedia Animalia]
Arthropoda:Chelicerata
[GBIF Arthropoda] [IRMNG Arthropoda] [Wikipedia Arthropoda: Chelicerata]
Arachnida
[GBIF Arachnida] [IRMNG Arachnida] [Wikipedia Arachnida]
Trigonotarbida
[GBIF no order superior to Eophrynidae] [IRMNG Trignotarbida] [Wikipedia Trigonotarbida]
Eophrynidae
[GBIF Eophrynidae] [IRMNG Eophrynidae] [Wikipedia Eophrynidae]
Pleophrynus
[GBIF Pleophrynus] [IRMNG Pleophrynus]
Pleophrynus hawesi
Known from a single fossil.
• Holotype specimen was collected at KBQL by Bill Hawes in 2013. This species is named and described in Dunlop et al. 2014. Photograph is provided in Figure 1 of Dunlop et al. 2014. Specimen is deposited in the Museum of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA under repository number KUMIP 340490.
Arthropoda:Crustacea
[GBIF Arthropoda] [IRMNG Arthropoda] [Wikipedia Arthropoda: Crustacea]
Malacostraca
[GBIF Malacostraca] [IRMNG Malacostraca] [Wikipedia Malacostraca]
Aeschronectida
[GBIF no order superior to Aenigmacarididae] [IRMNG Aeschronectida] [Wikipedia Aeschronectida]
Aenigmacarididae
[GBIF Aenigmacarididae] [IRMNG Aenigmacarididae]
Aenigmacaris
Aenigmacaris minima
• Holotype specimen and 5 paratype specimens were collected at KBQL by Sergius H. Mamay of the U. S. Geological Survey in 1967 and 1969. This species is named and described in Schram and Schram 1979. Three photographs of these specimens appear in plate 2 of Schram and Schram 1979. Specimens are deposited at the U. S. National Museum under repository numbers USNM 235641 (holotype) and USNM 235637, 235638, 235639, 235640, and 235642 (paratypes).
Palaeocaridacea?
[GBIF no order superior to Uronectidae] [IRMNG does not place Uronectidae in Palaeocaridacea]
Schram and Schram 1979 place their new species (Uronectes kinniensis) in class Palaeocaridacea and family Uronectidae.
Uronectidae
[GBIF Uronectidae] [IRMNG Uronectidae]
Uronectes
[GBIF Uronectes] [IRMNG Uronectes]
Uronectes kinniensis
• Holotype specimen and 10 paratype specimens were collected at KBQL by Sergius H. Mamay of the U. S. Geological survey in 1967 and 1969. This species is named and described in Schram and Schram 1979. Five photographs of these specimens appear in plate 1 of Schram and Schram 1979. Specimens are deposited at the U. S. National Museum under repository numbers USNM 235625 (holotype) and USNM 235626 through USNM 235635 (paratypes).
Arthropoda:Hexapoda
[GBIF Arthropoda] [IRMNG Arthropoda] [Wikipedia Arthropoda: Hexapoda]
Insecta
[GBIF Insecta] [IRMNG Insecta] [Wikipedia Insecta]
Blattodea
[GBIF Blattodea] [IRMNG Blattodea] [Wikipedia Blattodea]
Uncertain Family
Uncertain Genus
Uncertain genus species
• Fossil collected at KBQL by Sergius Mamay in 1969. Photograph of this specimen appears in Figure 7 of Carpenter 1970, but no attempt was made to classify it beyond being a cockroach.
Neuroptera
[GBIF Neuroptera] [IRMNG Neuroptera]
Permobiellidae
[GBIF Permobiellidae] [IRMNG Permobiellidae]
Carpenter 1943 argues that Permobiellidae belongs in Caloneurodea, not Neuroptera as originally assigned. However, this view does not appear to have been widely accepted.
Pseudobiella
Genus proposed in Carpenter 1970.
Pseudobiella fasciata
Known from one fossil that is missing the abdomen.
• Holotype specimen was collected at KBQL by Sergius Mamay of the U. S. Geological survey in May 1969. This species is named and described in Carpenter 1970. One photograph of the holotype specimen appears in Figure 5 of Carpenter 1970. Holotype specimen is deposited at the U. S. National Museum under repository number USNM 170366.
Palaeodictyoptera
[GBIF no order superior to Lycocercidae] [IRMNG Palaeodictyoptera]
Lycocercidae
[GBIF Lycocercidae] [IRMNG Lycocercidae]
Madera
[Carpenter 1970 described this new genus for a new species discovered at KBQL]
Madera mamayi
Known from one fossil that is missing the head.
• Holotype specimen was collected at KBQL by Sergius Mamay of the U. S. Geological survey in May 1969. This species is named and decribed in Carpenter 1970. One photograph of the holotype specimen appears in Figure 1 of Carpenter 1970. Holotype specimen is deposited at the U. S. National Museum under repository number USNM 170365.
Arthropoda: Myriapoda
[GBIF Arthropoda] [IRMNG Arthropoda] [Wikipedia Arthropoda: Myriapoda]
Uncertain Class
Uncertain Order
Uncertain Family
Uncertain Genus
Uncertain genus species
• Fossil collected by Sergius H. Mamay of the U. S. Geological survey in 1967 or 1969. Mentioned as "possibly a myriapod" in Schram and Schram 1979. The specimen is deposited at the U. S. National Museum under repository number USNM 235643.
Chordata: Vertebrata
[GBIF Chordata] [IRMNG Chordata] [Wikipedia Chordata: Vertebrata]
Amphibia
[GBIF Amphibia] [IRMNG Amphibia] [Wikipedia Amphibia]
Temnospondyli
[GBIF no order superior to Trimerorhachidae] [IRMNG Temnospondyli] [Wikipedia Temnospondyli]
Trimerorhachidae
[GBIF Trimerorhachidae] [IRMNG Trimerorhachidae] [Wikipedia Trimerorhachidae]
Lafonius
[GBIF Lafonius] [IRMNG Lafonius] [Berman 1973 described this new genus for a new species discovered at KBQL]
Lafonius lehmani
• Holotype specimen collected by Neal LaFon and Thomas Lehman at KBQL in the summer of 1971. This species is named and described in Berman 1973. Photographs of this specimen appear in Figure 2, Figure 3, and Figure 6 of Berman 1973. The specimen is deposited at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History under repository number CM 25474.
Uncertain Class (?Acanthodii)
[GBIF no class superior to Acanthodidae] [Wikipedia Acanthodii]
Zidek 1975 places the family Acanthodidae into Class Acanthodii.
Uncertain Order (?Acanthodiformes)
[GBIF no order superior to Acanthodidae]
Zidek 1975 places the family Acanthodidae into order Acanthodiformes.
Acanthodidae
[GBIF Acanthodidae]
Acanthodes
[GBIF Acanthodes]
Acanthodes Kinneyi
Mollusca
[GBIF Mollusca] [IRNMG Mollusca] [Wikipedia Mollusca]
Bivalvia
[GBIF Bivalvia] [IRNMG Bivalvia] [Wikipedia Bivalvia]
Pterioida
[GBIF Pteriodida] [IRNMG Pteriodida] [Wikipedia Pterioida]
Pterinopectinidae
[GBIF Pterinopectinidae] [IRNMG Pterinopectinidae]
Dunbarella
Dunbarella species
Extremely common in the shale layers at KBQL.
• Clark 1978 discusses the Dunbarella species distribution at KBQL and suggests the varves in the rock layers at Kinney indicates a seasonal pattern of colonization by the Dunbarella species followed by mass mortality. No photographs or repository specimens are mentioned in this abstract.
• Dunlop et al. 2014 note that a Dunbarella species appears on the same sample as their Pleophrynus hawesi.
• Several Dunbarella sp. appear on a Neuropteris ovata Hoffman fossil and documented in Figure 4A of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422631. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of a restored version of this specimen in their Figure 12.1.
Plantae
[GBIF Plantae] [IRMNG Plantae] [EWSP Plantae] [Wikipedia Plantae]
Cycadophyta
[GBIF Cycadophyta] [IRMNG Gymnospermophyta] [EWSP no phylum superior to Cycadopsida] [Wikipedia Division Cycadophyta]
Seed Plants usually with Pinnate leaves.
Cycadopsida
[GBIF Cycadopsida] [IRMNG Cycadopsida] [EWSP Cycadopsida] [Wikipedia Cycadopsida]
Medullosales
[GBIF no order superior to Medullosaceae] [IRMNG Medullosales] [EWSP Medullosales] [Wikipedia Medullosales]
Medullosaceae
[GBIF Medullosaceae] [IRMNG Medullosaceae] [EWSP Alethopteridaceae] [Wikipedia Alethopteridaceae]
Alethopteris
[GBIF Alethopteris] [IRMNG Alethopteris] [EWSP Alethopteris] [Wikipedia Alethopteris]
Alethopteris schneideri
• Identified as Alethopteris schneideri Sterzel and documented in Figure 15 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558145.
Equisetophyta
[GBIF Equisetophyta] [Wikipedia uses Pteridophyta and Equisetophyta (see Equisetopsida)]
Equisetopsida
[GBIF Equisetopsida C. Aghard or Equisetopsida C. Aghard, differring in the assignment of phylum] [Wikipedia Equisetopsida synonymous with Sphenopsida] (Horsetails)
Equisetales
[GBIF Equisetales] [EWSP Equisetales and Equisetales, contradicting] [Wikipedia Equisetales]
Calamitaceae
[GBIF Calamitaceae] [Wikipedia Calamitaceae]
Annularia
[GBIF Annularia] [Wikipedia Annularia]
Annularia carinata
• Identified as Annularia carinata Gutbier and documented in Figure 4.3 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558132.
Annularia sphenophylloides
• Identified as Annularia sphenophylloides (Zenker) Gutbier and documented in Figure 2G of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450770. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 4.4 and confirm the original identification.
Annularia spicata
• Originally identified as Annularia cf. asteris Bell and documented in Figure 2E of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450768. DiMichele et al. 2013 provides new photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450768 in their Figures 3.3 and 3.4 where they refigure this specimen as Annularia spicata (Gutbier) Schimper.
• Originally identified as Annularia cf. radiata (Brongniart) Sternberg and documented in Figure 2D of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450767. DiMichele et al. 2013 provides a new photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450767 in their Figures 4.1 where they refigure this specimen as Annularia cf. spicata.
Annularia spinulosa
• Originally identified as Annularia cf. pseudostellata Potonié and documented in Figure 2F of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450769. DiMichele et al. 2013 provides a new photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450769 in their Figure 4.2 where they refigure this specimen as Annularia spinulosa Sternberg. They note that this is the same species as Annularia stellata (Schlotheim) Brongniart, but consider that name illegitimate.
Calamites
[GBIF Calamites] [Wikipedia Calamites]
Calamites species
• Originally identifed as Calamites citii Brongniart and documented in Figure 2C of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450766. However, Mamay and Mapes mention in the text that "... the presences of a few ribs continuing directly across a node suggests assignment of these axes to the subgenus Mesocalamites ...". The record at the U. S. National Museum for specimen number USNM 450766 lists the scientific name as Calamites cf. dusenburyi Brongniart. Finally, DiMichele et al. 2013 mentions that calamitalean fossils are "... taxonomically insignificant" and their Figure 2.1 includes a new photograph of the same specimen USNM 450766 that they label as a Calamites stem.
Calamostachyaceae
[GBIF Calamostachyaceae] [Wikipedia includes this in Calamitaceae]
Calamostachys
[GBIF Calamostachys]
Calamostachys spicata (Gutbier) Remy and Remy
• Originally documented in Figure 2H of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450771. It was identified as "... very small-leaved, specifically indeterminate specimen ..." of the genus Asterophyllites. DiMichele et al. 2013 provides new photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450771 in their Figures 3.1 and 3.2. However, they confusingly identify this as Calamostachys spicata (Gutbier) Remy and Remy in the text on page 290, while calling it Calamostachys dumasii (Zeiller) Jongmans in the Figure captions on page 293.
Uncertain Order
Uncertain Family
Palaeostachya
[GBIF Palaeostachya]
Wikipedia lists this genus as belonging to Calamitaceae
Palaeostachya thuringiaca (Weiss) Barthel
• Originally documented in Figure 2J of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450773. It was provisionally identified as Calamostachys pedunculata Weiss, but the authors noted that "... it remains possible that the Kinney specimens are correctly assignable to Paleostachya rather than to Calamostachys." DiMichele et al. 2013 provides a new photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450773 in their Figure 2.3. However, they confusingly identify this as Palaeostachya thuringiaca in the text on page 290, while also identifying it as Calamostachys tuberculata in the Figure 2.3 caption on page 292.
Palaeostachya species
• Originally documented in Figure 2I of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450772. It was provisionally identified as Calamostachys cf. ludwigii Weiss, but the authors noted that "... it remains possible that the Kinney specimens are correctly assignable to Paleostachya rather than to Calamostachys." DiMichele et al. 2013 provides a new photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450772 in their Figure 2.2. However, they confusingly identify this as Palaeostachya? sp. in the text on page 289, while also identifying it as Paleostachya thuringiaca in the Figure 2.2 caption on page 292.
Gnetophyta
[GBIF Gnetophyta]
Gnetopsida
[GBIF Gnetopsida]
Uncertain Order
[GBIF no order superior to Pentoxylaceae]
Pentoxylaceae
[GBIF Pentoxylaceae]
Taeniopteris
[GBIF Taeniopteris]
This is Taeniopteris Brongniart 1882, but the main GBIF branch also surprisingly has an entry for Taeniopteris Hook. so there is a contradiction in this database.
Taeniopteris cf. abnormis
• Identified as Cycopsid? foilage Taeniopteris cf. abnormis and documented in Figure 28.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558146.
• Identified as Cycopsid? foilage Taeniopteris cf. abnormis and documented in Figure 28.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558144.
Lycopodiophyta
[GBIF Lycopodiophyta] [EWSP Lycopodiophyta] [Wikipedia Lycopodiophyta]
Uncertain class
Uncertain order
Uncertain family
Uncertain genus
Unidentified species
• An "Undetermined aggregate of acuminate foliose structures, probably lycopsid" documented in Figure 2B of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450765.
• DiMichele et al. 2013 suggests an unidentified fossil might be a small lycopsid stem. This is documented in Figure 1.2 of that work with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558126.
Pinophyta
[GBIF Pinophyta] [EWSP Pinophyta] [Wikipedia Pinophyta]
Conifers
Pinopsida
[GBIF Pinopsida] [EWSP Pinopsida] [Wikipedia Pinopsida]
Pinales
[GBIF Pinales] [EWSP Pinales]
Araucariaceae
[GBIF Araucariaceae]
Gomphostrobus
[GBIF Gomphostrobus]
Gomphostrobus species
• Provisionally identified as Gomphostrobus species and documented in Figure 8E of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 455003. Provisionally identified as Gomphostrobus species and documented in Figure 26.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a new photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 455003.
Uncertain Order (?Dicranophyllales)
Uncertain Family (?Dicranophyllaceae)
[GBIF Dicranophyllaceae strangely does not show Dicranophyllum as a subordinate taxa]
Dicranophyllum
[GBIF Dicranophyllum]
GBIF does not specifiy a family or an order for this genus. However, there is an empty family named Dicranophyllaceae that is an obvious choice purely from naming conventions.
Dicranophyllum readii
• Described as a new species Dicranophyllum readii Mamay in Mamay 1981, but I have not yet been able to get a copy of that paper.
• Identified as Dicranophyllum readii Mamay and documented in Figure 7E of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 267281. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 25.2 and confirm the original identification.
• Identified as Dicranophyllum readii Mamay and documented in Figure 7F of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 267283.
• Identified as Dicranophyllum readii Mamay, noted as Holotype, and documented in Figure 25.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 267277.
Uncertain Order (?Voltziales)
[GBIF does not list an order superior to Utrechtiaceae or Walchiaceae] [Wikipedia Voltziales]
Utrechtiaceae
[GBIF Utrechtiaceae] [Wikipedia Utrechtiaceae]
Ernestiodendron
[GBIF Ernestiodendron]
Ernestiodendron filiciforme
• Identified as Ernestiodendron filiciforme (Schlotheim) Florin and documented in Figure 24.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558128.
• Identified as Ernestiodendron filiciforme (Schlotheim) Florin and documented in Figure 24.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558129.
• Identified as Ernestiodendron filiciforme (Schlotheim) Florin and documented in Figure 24.3 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558133.
Walchiaceae
[GBIF Walchiaceae]
Culmitzschia
[GBIF Culmitzschia]
Culmitzschia species
• Identified as Walchia piniformis (Schlotheim) Sternberg and documented in Figure 8B of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 455002. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 23.2, but refigure it as Culmitzschia species. They note that "The described species most similar to those in the Kinney collections are Culmitzschia laxifolia (Florin) Clement-Westerhof and Culmitzschia speciosa (Florin) Clement-Westerhof."
Walchia
[GBIF Walchia] [Wikipedia Walchia]
Walchia species
• Provisionally identified as Walchia cf. schneideri Zeiller and documented in Figure 8D of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 455001. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 23.1, but are not comfortable with a definitive species type suggesting that "The long leaves may reflect its position on a lateral branch, perhaps as the principal axis, or as the stem of a small individual of W. piniformis, rather than being representative of a distinct species."
Walchia piniformis
• Originally identified as Walchia piniformis (Schlotheim) Sternberg and documented in Figure 8A of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450803. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 23.3 and confirm the original identification.
Uncertain Order
Uncertain Family
Cordaianthus
[GBIF Cordaianthus]
Cordaianthus species
• Identified as Cordaianthus sp. "Cordaitean fertile axis with several bilaterally arranged dwarf shoots" and documented in Figure 7C of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450799. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 26.2 and confirm it as Cordaianthus sp..
Pteridophyta
[GBIF Pteridophyta] [IRMNG Pteridophyta] [EWSP Pteridophyta] [Wikipedia Pteridophyta]
Marattiopsida
[GBIF Marattiopsida] [Wikipedia Marattiopsida]
Marattialean Ferns
Marattiales
[GBIF Marattiales] [Wikipedia Marattiales]
Marattiaceae
[GBIF Marattiaceae] [Wikipedia Marattiaceae]
Pecopteris
[GBIF Pecopteris] [Wikipedia Pecopteris]
Form taxon for Fern-shaped leaves that are associated with Psaronius Tree Ferns.
Pecopteris species
• Provisionally identified as Pecopteris species and documented in Figure 8.4 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558255.
Pecopteris cf. monyi
• Provisionally identified as Pecopteris cf. monyi Zeiller and documented in Figures 8.2 and 8.3 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558262.
Pecopteris cf. oreopteridia
• Provisionally identified as Pecopteris cf. oreopteridia (Schlotheim) Brongniart and documented in Figure 8.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558266.
Pecopteris potoniei
• Provisionally identified as ?Pecopteris sp. and documented in Figure 3B of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450775. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide new photographs of this specimen in their Figures 7.1 and 7.2 and refigure it as Pecopteris (Asterotheca) poteoniel Nemejc. The Figure captions in that paper refer to this as specimen 450780, but I believe it is actually specimen 450775 from comparision with the original paper.
Polypodiopsida
[GBIF Polypodiopsida]
Schizaeales
[GBIF Schizaeales]
Schizaeaceae
[GBIF Schizaeaceae]
Odontopteris
[GBIF Odontopteris]
cf. Odontopteris gimmii
• Provisionally identified as "... indeterminate small pinna terminal segment, possibly Odontopteris gimmii" and documented in Figure 30.3 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558140.
Polypodiales
[GBIF Polypodiales]
Dennstaedtiaceae
[GBIF Dennstaedtiaceae]
Macroneuropteris
[GBIF no matches] [EWSP Macroneuropteris][Wikipedia Macroneuropteris]
As this genus was refigured from Neuropteris I am provisionally placing it in the same family. Wikipedia alternatively places both of these genera into Cycadopsida/Medullosales/Neurodontopteridaceae.
Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri
Mamay and Mapes 1992 report this species as "... a minor component of the neuropterids. It occurs only as a few detached but specifically recognizable pinnules ...". DiMichele et al. 2013 reports the occurance of this species at KBLQ "... suggests that standing water or periodically flooded swamps were present ...".
• Originally identified as Neuropteris scheuchzeri Hoffman and documented in Figure 5B of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450786. DiMichele et al. 2013 provides new photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450786 in their Figures 10.1 and 10.2 where they refigure this specimen as Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri (Hoffmann) Cleal, Shute and Zodrow.
Neuropteris
[GBIF Neuropteris ] [EWSP Neuropteris] [Wikipedia Neuropteris]
Neuropteris cordata
• Identified as Neuropteris cordata Brongniart and documented in Figure 14 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558148.
Neuropteris ovata
Mamay and Mapes 1992 report "Neuropteris is a co-dominant component of the flora; specimens occur with approximately the same frequency as the walchian conifers. The Kinney neuropterids consist mainly of the more-or-less articulated specimens of the highly variable species Neuropteris ovata Hoffman ..."
• Identified as Neuropteris ovata Hoffman (along with several Dunbarella sp.) and documented in Figure 4A of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422631. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of a restored version of this specimen in their Figure 12.1 and confirm the original identification.
• Identified as Neuropteris ovata Hoffman and documented in Figure 4C of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450781. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 12.2 and confirm the original identification.
• Identified as Neuropteris ovata Hoffman and documented in Figure 4D of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450782.
• Identified as Neuropteris ovata Hoffman and documented in Figure 4E of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450784. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 11.1 and confirm the original identification.
Uncertain Class
Uncertain Order
Uncertain Family
Danaeites
[GBIF Danaeites]
Wikipedia lists this as an extinct genus in the family Marattiaceae
Danaeites emersonii
• Identified as Danaeites emersonii Lesquereux and documented in Figure 3C of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450776. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 6.1 and confirm the original identification.
Pseudomariopteris
[GBIF Pseudomariopteris]
Pseudomariopteris cordato-ovata
• Identified as Pseudomariopteris cordato-ovata (Weiss) Gillespie, Clendening and Pfefferkorn and documented in Figures 21.1 and 21.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558125.
• Provisionally identified as ?Neuropteris sp. and documented in Figure 5H of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450792. Provisionally refigured as cf. Pseudomariopteris cordato-ovata (Weiss) Gillespie, Clendening and Pfefferkorn and documented in Figure 30.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450792 (where they mistakenly say it is from Figure 9H of the original work, when it was actually 5H).
Nemejcopteris
[GBIF Nemejcopteris]
Nemejcopteris feminaeformis
• Originally identified as Pecopteris feminaeformis (Schlotheim) Sterzel and documented in Figure 3F of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450779. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 5.2 and refigure it as Nemejcopteris feminaeformis. Note that there is a typographical error in thier Figure 5.2 that mistakenly attributes a different photograph as specimen 450779, but it is clear from the photographs that they meant Figure 5.2 and not Figure 6.1.
• Identified as Nemejcopteris feminaeformis and documented in Figure 5.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558134. Note that the figure caption mistakenly attributes this specimen as being contributed by Mamay and Mapes 1992, but that appears to be a typographical error as the specimen shown in their Figure 5.2 matches that description.
Plagiozamites
[GBIF Plagiozamites]
Plagiozamites rochei
DiMichele et al. 2013 states that "Plagiozamites planchardii is here identified with Sphenozamites rochei Renault, a European species recorded from the high Stephanian strata in France and Spain ..." and then "... suggest that this element should be recorded as Plagiozamites rochei (Renault) comb. nov. [Basinym: Sphenozamites rochei Renault, 1882, Archives botaniques du Nord de la France, p. 180-184, 1 fig.]."
• Originally identified as Plagiozamites planchardi [sic] (Renault) Zeiller and documented in Figures 1 and 2 of Mamay 1990 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422621. Mamay and Mapes 1992 identify this as Plagiozamites planchardii (Renault) Zeiller and document this in Figure 9A with what appears to be the same photograph as Figure 1 of Mamay 1990. DiMichele et al. 2013 provides new photographs of this specimen in their Figures 27.1 and 27.2, identify Plagiozamites planchardii with Sphenozamites rochei Renault, and then suggest a new name of Plagiozamites rochei (Renault) comb. nov. [Basionym: Sphenozamites rochei Renault 1882 Archives botaniques du Nord de la France, p. 180-184, 1 fig.].
Sigillaria
[GBIF Sigillaria] [EWSP Sigillaria] [Wikipedia Sigillaria]
Sigillaria brardii
• Identified as Sigillaria brardii Brongniart and documented in Figure 2A of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450764. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 1.1 and confirm the original identification.
Uncertain Phylum
Uncertain Class
Uncertain Order
Uncertain Family
Blanzyopteris
[GBIF Blanzyopteris]
cf. Blanzyopteris praedentata
The records of this species at KBQL are fragmentary and lack the climbing organs and the trichromes.
• Provisionally identified foilage as cf. Blanzyopteris praedentata (Gothan) Krings and Kerp and documented in Figures 16.1 and 16.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558135.
• Provisionally identified foilage as cf. Blanzyopteris praedentata (Gothan) Krings and Kerp and documented in Figures 16.3 and 16.4 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558136.
Charliea
[GBIF Charliea]
Described as a new genus in Mamay 1990 for holotype (and several paratype) specimens found at KBQL.
Charliea manzanitana
Described as a new genus and species in Mamay 1990 for the holotype (and several paratype) specimens found at KBQL.
• Described as Charliea manzanitana and documented in Figure 3 Mamay 1990 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422622.
• Described as Charliea manzanitana and documented in Figure 4 Mamay 1990 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422623.
• Described as Charliea manzanitana (holotype) and documented in Figure 5 Mamay 1990 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422628. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 27.3 and confirm the original identification.
• Described as Charliea manzanitana and documented in Figure 6 Mamay 1990 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422624. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 27.4 and confirm the original identification.
• Described as Charliea manzanitana (along with Dunbarella sp.) and documented in Figure 7 Mamay 1990 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422625.
Mixoneura
[GBIF Mixoneura]
Mixoneura cf. gimmii
• Provisionally identified as Neuropteris pinna fragment and documented in Figure 4B of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450783. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 17.3 and refigure it as Mixoneura cf. gimmii (Remy and Remy) Wagner.
Mixoneura subcrenulata
• Provisionally identified as Odontopteris sp. and documented in Figure 3E of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450778. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 17.1 and refigure it as Mixoneura subcrenulata (Rost) Zeiller. They also note "... marginal arthropod feeding damage, especially on large terminal pinnule.".
• Originally identified as Neuropteris ovata Hoffman and documented in Figure 3D of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450782. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 17.2 and refigure it as Mixoneura subcrenulata (Rost) Zeiller. They also note "... marginal arthropod feeding damage, especially on large terminal pinnule.".
• Identified as Mixoneura subcrenulata (Rost) Zeiller and documented in Figures 18.1 and 18.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558139. They also note "... evidence of marginal damage due to possible arthropod feeding."
• Identified as Mixoneura subcrenulata (Rost) Zeiller and documented in Figures 18.3 and 18.4 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558147.
• Identified as Mixoneura subcrenulata (Rost) Zeiller and documented in Figures 18.5 and 18.6 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558124. They also note "... evidence of marginal damage due to possible arthropod feeding."
• Identified as Mixoneura subcrenulata (Rost) Zeiller and documented in Figure 18.7 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558149.
Neurocallipteris
[GBIF Neurocallipteris] [Wikipedia lists this genus as a member of the family Neurodontopteridaceae]
Neurocallipteris planchardii
• Identified as Neurocallipteris planchardii (Zeiller) Cleal, Shute and Zodrow and documented in Figure 19.3 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558141.
Neurodontopteris
[GBIF Neurodontopteris] [Wikipedia lists this genus as a member of the family Neurodontopteridaceae]
Neurodontopteris auriculata
• Provisionally identified as Neuropteris sp. (cf. N. macrophylla Brongniart) and documented in Figure 5D of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450788. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 10.3 (which they mislabel as USNM 450789) and refigure it as Neurodontopteris auriculata (Brongniart) Potonié.
• Provisionally identified as Neuropteris sp. (cf. N. macrophylla Brongniart) and documented in Figure 5E of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450789. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide new photographs of this specimen in their Figures 20.1 and 20.2 and refigure it as Neurodontopteris cf. auriculata (Brongniart) Potonié.
• Identified as Neurodontopteris auriculata (Brongniart) Potonié and documented in Figure 19.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558143.
• Identified as Neurodontopteris auriculata (Brongniart) Potonié and documented in Figure 19.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558142 where they note "... marginal arthropod feeding damage."
• Provisionally identified as cf. Neurodontopteris auriculata and documented in Figure 30.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558138.
Remia
[GBIF Remia]
Wikipedia mentions Remia as a leaf taxon associated with Psaronius
Remia pinnatifida
• Identified as Remia pinnatifida (Gutbier) Knight emend. Kerp et al. and documented in Figure 9.1 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558256.
Podozamites
[GBIF Podozamites]
cf. Podozamites species
• Provisionally identified as "Problematical foliate axis, reminiscent of a cycad-like frond or a Podozamites-like leafy conifer shoot" and documented in Figure 9F of Mamay and Mapes 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 422630. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide a new photograph of this specimen in their Figure 29 and label it as "Problematica, possible coniferophyte, Podozamites-like shoot."
Sphenopteridium
[GBIF Sphenopteridium]
Mamay 1992 summarized the generic characterization of Sphenopteridium.

In Terms of qualitative attributes, the genus stands distinct by virtue of the following combination of characteristics: the dichotomous frond rachis and the pinnate architecture, the occurrence of pinnae both above and below the frond dichotomy, the absence of a dominant vein in the open dichotomous venation, and ... surface features in the form of longitudinal striations and transversely elongate ridges.

Sphenopteridium manzanitanum (?=Sphenopteridium germanicum)
DiMichele et al. 2013 argue that Sphenopteris germanica is the same species as Sphenopteridium manzanitanum, but does indeed belong to the genus Sphenopteridium instead of the genus Sphenopteris, and "... thus conclude that this plant should be referred to as Sphenopteridium germanicum, a formal synonymy of which will need to be presented elsewhere."
• Described as a Paratype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 1 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 458322A.
• Described as a Paratype the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 2 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 458323A.
• Described as a Paratype the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 3 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 458324.
• Described as the Holotype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 4 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450796A. DiMichele et al. 2013 provide photographs of the holotype fossil U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450796 in their Figures 22.1 and 22.2 and confirm the assignment to the genus. However, they argue that Sphenopteris germanica is the same species and "... thus conclude that this plant should be referred to as Sphenopteridium germanicum, a formal synonymy of which will need to be presented elsewhere."
• Described as a Paratype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 5 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 459795B.
• Described as a Paratype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum (along with some Dunbarella shells) and documented in Figure 6 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450793.
• Described as a Paratype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 7 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 458325.
• Described as a Paratype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 8 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450794.
• Described as a Paratype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 11 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 450795A.
• Described as a Paratype of the new species Sphenopteridum manzanitanum and documented in Figure 12 of Mamay 1992 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 458327.
Sphenopteris
[GBIF Sphenopteris]
cf. Sphenopteris (Discopteris?) hadrophylla
• Provisionally identified as Sphenopteris (Discopteris?) hadrophylla Knight and documented in Figure 9.2 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558265.
Telangiopsis
[GBIF Telangiopsis]
Telangiopsis species
• Provisionally identified as Telangiopsis sp. and documented in Figures 9 and 13 of Mamay 1992 with photographs of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 458326.
Uncertain Genus
Unknown genus species
• Provisionally identified as "possible small plantlet with basal roots" and documented in Figure 30.4 of DiMichele et al. 2013 with a photograph of U. S. National Museum specimen number USNM 558137.

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