Where: Brown County, Kansas (39.9° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 27.1° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hughes Creek Shale Member (Foraker Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• The authors placed the Hughes Creek Shale in the Permian, more recent data indicates that it was actually in the late Carboniferous. The collection comes from the lower part of unit 1 of the Hughes Creek at this locality. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous 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 11834: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 13.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Wellerella truncata Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Bryozoa | |
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