Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.3° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 29.0° 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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous siltstone
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 11955: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 21.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Lissochonetes cf. geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer cf. dunbari King 1933 | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 |