USGS Loc. 13803, Units E & F, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.5° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 28.9° 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; gray, calcareous siltstone

• Shale, very calcareous, silty, dark-gray, thin-bedded to massive; Many thin fossiliferous mudstones and limestone lenses in upper part

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 12046: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 03.10.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Linoproductus magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus
"Linoproductus magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp.
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884