USGS Loc. 13719, Aspinwall LS member, Onaga Shale formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Lyon County, Kansas (38.7° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aspinwall Limestone Member (Onaga Shale Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• The authors place the Aspinwall LS in the Permian, but more recent data indicates it is late Carboniferous.

•Noginskian stage is reported as equivalent to Virgilian stage.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• impure? 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 11698: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 30.08.2001

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia cf. nebrascensis Geinitz 1866 clam