Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (38.0° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 27.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Burr Limestone Member (Grenola Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale
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 12315: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 22.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Septimyalina cf. scitula Newell 1942 clam | |
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis cf. hawni Meek and Hayden 1858 scallop | |
Permophorus subcostatus Meek and Worthen 1866 clam |