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 11877: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 18.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Rhipidomella carbonaria Shumard and Swallow 1858 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931 | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 |