USGS Loc. 13432, Unit A, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker Shale formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• Limestone, clayey, gray, weathers blocky; small clay balls common; shaly in upper part

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Wellerella truncata Dunbar and Condra 1932
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Listed as Bifoliate Bryozoans