Where: Nemaha County, Kansas (39.9° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 27.3° 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.
• 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 12037: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 01.10.2001
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 | |
Meekella cf. striatocostata Cox 1857 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer, Lissochonetes geronticus
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 |