Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.3° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 29.0° 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, but more recent data indicates that it was late Carboniferous. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, gray, calcareous siltstone
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 11860: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 17.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 | |
Anthozoa | |
Dibunophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852 | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932 |