USGS Loc. 14853, Unit B, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation. (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (37.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° S, 28.8° 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.

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

• Unit B of the Hughes Creek consists of alternating beds of shales and limestones. The specific lithology of this collection is unknown, but is more likely limestone than 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 11885: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 18.09.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Fragments and individuals in limestone
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum sp.
Dibunophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer dunbari
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp.
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858