Where: Jackson County, Kansas (39.4° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 27.6° 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 limestone of unit 1 of the Huges Creek at this locality. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, 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 11837: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 13.09.2001

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