USGS Loc. 13783, Wamego Shale member, Zeandale LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.5° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 28.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wamego Shale Member (Zeandale Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• Noginskian is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous siltstone

• Shale, clayey to silty, calcareous shale in upper part contains pelecypods 2.8 ft from top; minute fossil fragments that are very likely ostracodes; very calcareous zone in the uppermost part overlies 0.4 ft bed of coal; a marl zone 1.0ft thick is present 5.3 ft below coal bed

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 11532: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 20.08.2001

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata