Where: Chase County, Kansas (38.4° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 28.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hughes Creek Shale Member (Foraker Limestone Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• The authors placed the Hughes Creek Shale in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. Upper part of Streptognathodus farmeri to lower patr of Streptognathodus binodous zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11951: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 20.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
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Anthozoa | |
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Allorisma cf. terminale" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma cf. terminale" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
"aff. Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"aff. Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873 | |
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite |