Where: Chautauqua County, Kansas (39.3° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 28.1° 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. Collection comes from the upper limestone bed of the Falls City at this locality.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone
•The Noginskian Stage is reported as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
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 11739: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 04.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Bivalvia | |
Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata Shumard 1855 clam | |
Clavicosta sp. Newell 1938 scallop
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852 | |
Cancrinella boonensis Swallow 1858 |