USGS Loc. 14816, Sallyards LS member, Grenola LS formation (Permian of the United States)

Where: Cowley County, Kansas (37.4° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sallyards Limestone Member (Grenola Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone

• Limestone, hard, gray, weathers blocky and to thin irregularbeds that slump down slope; upper part is porous and weathers to small irregular blocks; some secondary calcite; upper surface pitted; pelecypods abundant in thin beds; fossil fragments abundant in upper beds; gastropods and pelecypods common. Forms hillside bench.

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 12256: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 16.10.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp.
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina sp.
Septimyalina sp. Newell 1942 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp.
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Aviculopinna sp.
Aviculopinna sp. Meek 1864 oyster