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 recgonized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage. Strat section given in 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 11880: 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 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Wellerella osagensis Shumard and Swallow 1858 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931 | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
Marginifera sp. Waagen 1884 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 | |
Derbyia cf. wabaunseensis Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Meekella striatocostata Cox 1857 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam | |
Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 |