Where: Riley County, Kansas (39.2° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 28.1° 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, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 11875: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 18.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
"Linoproductus cf. magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus
"Linoproductus cf. magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Gastropoda | |
Amphiscapha sp. Knight 1942 snail |