USGS Loc. 13595, Unit B, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• Unit B of the Hughes Creek consists of alternating beds of shale and limestone. The exact location within unit B is not given and the lithology is not specified, although shale is the likely lithology.

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

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Listed as Bifoliate Bryozoans
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella osagensis Shumard and Swallow 1858
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Productida -
Marginifera sp. Waagen 1884
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia cf. wabaunseensis Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878