Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (38.0° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 28.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Falls City Limestone Formation (Admire Group), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• The authors placed the Falls City LS in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it was late Carboniferous.
•The Noginskian Stage is reported as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
•Bed 11-Limestone, hard, dense in part, gray, blocky; fossil fragments abundant, including crinoid columnnals
•Bed 10-Limestone, hard, dense in part, gray, blocky; very irregular surface; pelecypods
•Bed 8-Limestone, hard, clayey, gray, weathers blocky; pelecypods abundant
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 11732: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 04.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Edmondia nebrascensis Geinitz 1866 clam | |
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Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata Shumard 1855 clam | |
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Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
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Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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