USGS Loc. 13689, Falls City LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus cf. wheeleri Swallow 1863 clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia nebrascensis Geinitz 1866 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Promytilus vetulus Newell 1942 mussel
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop
Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
Listed as Fenestrate Bryozoans