USGS Loc. 14833, Unit D, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (37.7° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 28.9° 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 and limestone

• Shale, silty, calcareous, tan, thin-bedded; 1-ft. thick dense pelecypod-bearing limestone 1.7 ft. from top; weathers thin bedded gray and tan;

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 11995: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 24.09.2001

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha sp. Knight 1942 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Linoproductus magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus
"Linoproductus magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania cf. nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania cf. nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]