Where: Nemaha County, Kansas (40.0° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° S, 27.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Brownville Limestone Member (Wood Siding Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• The Noginskian stage is equivalent to the Virgilian stage
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
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 11663: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.08.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten cf. arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Punctospirifer kentuckensis Shumard 1855 | |
Composita cf. subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Strophomenata | |
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928 | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931 | |
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Lissochonetes geronticus, "Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |