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 upper 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; micaceous, gray, silty, sandy 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 11835: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 13.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 |