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
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 | |
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam | |
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop |