PBDB Collection

USGS Loc. 13485, Unit D, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Riley County, Kansas (39.2° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 28.1° 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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray, blue, argillaceous, silty, calcareous, carbonaceous shale and gray limestone

• 30) Shale, silty, calcareous, gray, weathers tan gray, thin-bedded to blocky; pelecypods, Crurithyris, brachiopods, echinoid spines, crinoid columnals, and fusulinids;

•29) Shale, carbonaceous, noncalcareous, black, weathers blue gray, thin-bedded; few clay inclusions, some limonite-stained zones; Orbiculoidea, Crurithyris, and Chonetes;

•28) Shale, silty, calcareous, gray-orange to gray, weathers gray orange, thin-bedded; some limonite stains; Orbiculoidea abundant;

•27) Limestone, hard, tan, weathers tan gray, massive; algal deposits, brachiopod fragments and fusulinids;

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 11989: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 24.09.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Algal deposits are listed as being present in bed 27 at this locality. The are probably in the form of stromatolites but are unidentified.

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Bryozoa
-	Bryozoa indet., Bryozoa indet. Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 Listed as Boring Bryozoans Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 Listed as Bifoliate Bryozoans
Lingulata
Lingulida - Discinidae	Orbiculoidea sp. Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Rhynchonellata
Athyridida - Athyrididae	Composita subtilita Composita subtilita Hall 1852
Athyridida - Neoretziidae	Hustedia mormoni Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae	Crurithyris expansa Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932
Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae	Neospirifer sp. Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
Strophomenata
Orthotetida - Derbyiidae	Derbyia crassa Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858
Orthotetida - Meekellidae	Meekella striatocostata Meekella striatocostata Cox 1857
Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae	"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer, Lissochonetes geronticus "Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932
Productida - Paucispiniferidae	"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis "Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855
Productida - Linoproductidae	Linoproductus sp. Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927
Productida - Productidae	"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis "Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931
Foraminifera
Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae	Fusulinidae indet. Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 Abundant