USGS 13776, Cedar Vale (Permian of the United States)

Where: Cowley County, Kansas (37.1° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 28.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Salem Point Member (Grenola Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• Shale, thin limestone; brachiopods in upper part

Size class: macrofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12324: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 23.10.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Linoproductus cf. magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus
"Linoproductus cf. magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes" sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
Listed as Fenestrate Bryozoans
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha sp. Knight 1942 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis cf. hawni Meek and Hayden 1858 scallop
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus subcostatus Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus cf. wheeleri Swallow 1863 clam