Where: Brown County, Kansas (39.9° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 27.2° 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 collection comes from 5 beds alternating between shales and limestones at this locality. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone and shale
•bed 14: Shale, silty, gray, thin-bedded
•bed 13: Limestone, gray, blocky, fusulinids very abundant
•bed 12: Shale, clayey, dark-gray, blocky
•bed 11: Limestone, clayey, medium-hard, gray, weathers blocky; shale partings in middle 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 11864: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 17.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Lingulata | |
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Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Marginifera sp. Waagen 1884 | |
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Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Dibunophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral | |
| Foraminifera | |
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