Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (38.9° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 28.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Americus Limestone Member (Foraker Limestone Formation), Noginian (301.2 - 300.2 Ma)
• The authors placed the Americus Limestone in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. The collection comes from the lower limestone of the Americus at this locality. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as 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 11810: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 12.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopinna peracuta Shumard and Swallow 1858 oyster | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata Shumard 1855 clam | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam |