Leisman Coal Ball 2160/OPC 00008006:
Locality
Overall Locality that Coal Ball 2160 was collected from:
OPC 00008020: Mackie-Clemens No. 23 Mine located approximately three miles north of Frontenac, Cherokee County, Kansas, United States
- Stratigraphy: Cherokee Group: Cabaniss Formation: Bevier Coal
- Age: Paleozoic: Pennsylvanian: Desmoinesian
- Associated Publications: SNOMNH-Pbot_00000181, SNOMNH_Pbot-00000254
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Taxa
Taxa that Leisman and his collaborators identified or described from Coal Ball 2160:
- Spencerites moorei (Cridland 1960) Leisman emend. 1962 [epitypes , later re-described as Spencerites moorei (Cridland 1960) Leisman and Stidd emend. 1967]
- Spencerites moorei (Cridland 1960) Leisman and Stidd emend. 1967 [epitypes]
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Publications
Publications in which Leisman described or identified specimens from Coal Ball 2160:
- Leisman, Gilbert Arthur, 1962. Spencerites moorei comb. nov. from Southeastern Kansas. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 347-356. [SNOMNH_Pbot-00000181] Note: Publication lists as Spencerites moorei (Cridland 1960) Leisman emend. 1962 and re-described as Spencerites moorei (Cridland 1960) Leisman and Stidd emend. 1967 in later publication [SNOMNH_Pbot-00000254] using same coal ball, coal ball peels, microscope slides, and spores. (our page on publication, PDF of article)
- Leisman, Gilbert Arthur and Stidd, Benton Maurice, 1967. Further Occurrences of Spencerites from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Kansas and Illinois. American Journal of Botany, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 316-323. doi: 10.2307/2440760 [SNOMNH-Pbot_00000254] (link to our page on publication, PDF of article) Note: publication lists as Spencerites moorei (Cridland 1960) Leisman and Stidd emend. 1967 using same coal ball, coal ball peels, microscope slides, and spores as previous publication [SNOMNH_Pbot-00000181].
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Specimens
Specimens that Leisman identified or described from Coal Ball 2160:
We are currently only aware of specimens that are in the Leisman Collection in the L. R. Wilson Paleobotany and Micropaleontology Collection, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma, United States (OMNH).
Before any sorting, we list the specimens numerically by Leisman number, then by type of specimen in this order: coal balls, coal ball peels, microscope slides, cones, sporangium, and spores. The columns are sort-able by clicking on the heading. The first click to a heading sorts them alphabetically (A to Z)/numerically (1-25). The second click to heading sorts them reverse alphabetically (Z to A)/numerically (25-1). The third click to heading brings back to original sort order.
Based on publications, labels, letters, and other documentation, we are aware that Leisman and his collaborators described or worked with specimens derived from Coal Ball 2160 listed in the table below.
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