Where: Lyon County, Kansas (38.7° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 28.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-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.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 12026: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 01.10.2001, edited by Raghav Sehtia
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera histricula" = Hystriculina hystricula
"Marginifera histricula" = Hystriculina hystricula Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
? Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928 | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer, Lissochonetes geronticus
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer cf. dunbari King 1933 | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Anthozoa | |
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 |