Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (38.9° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 27.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Falls City Limestone Formation (Admire Group), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• The authors placed the Falls City LS in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it was late Carboniferous.
•The Noginskian Stage is reported as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
•Strat section given in Mudge and Burton, 1959, section 52, p. 182;
• formation-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 11728: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 04.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Schizodus cf. wheeleri Swallow 1863 clam | |
Edmondia nebrascensis Geinitz 1866 clam | |
Promytilus vetulus Newell 1942 mussel | |
Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942 clam | |
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop | |
Stenolaemata | |
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