USGS Loc. 14898, Grandhaven LS member, Stotler LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.3° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 27.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grandhaven Limestone Member (Stotler Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• Lower limestone of Grandhaven limestone member at this locality.

•Noginskian stage is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• lower limestone

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: M. R. Mudge, E. L. Yochelson, R. C. Douglas, H. Duncan, H. L. Strimple, M. Gordon, Jr., and D. H. Dunkle. 1962. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 323:1-213 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11584: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 22.08.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop