Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 28.0° 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 is late Carboniferous. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage. Strat section comes from Mudge and Burton, 1959, section 45, p. 175;
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
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 11879: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 18.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita cf. subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852 | |
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931 | |
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania modesta White and St. John 1867 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |