USGS Loc. 13765, Unit E, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Cowley County, Kansas (37.2° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale and limestone

• Shale, very calcareous, some soft limestone, gray-brown, thin-bedded

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 12029: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 01.10.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Lissochonetes sp.
Lissochonetes sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet.
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
Listed as Fenestrate Bryozoans
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet.
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Abundant