USGS Loc. 13797, Americus LS member, Foraker LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.5° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 28.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Americus Limestone Member (Foraker Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• The authors placed the Americus Limestone in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it was late Carboniferous. The collection comes from the upper limestone of the Americus at this locality. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Limestone, hard, dark-gray, weathers blocky to nodular; upper surface irregular; chert nodules; fusulinid tests common in the 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 11829: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 13.09.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Fragments and individuals in limestone