USGS Loc. 13463, Unit F, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.4° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 27.9° 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; shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous limestone

• Limestone, medium-hard, argillaceous, gray-brown, massive, weathers tan gray and blocky to shaly; iron stains abundant near base; composed almost entirely of fusulinids

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 12048: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 03.10.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.
Foraminifera indet. foram
Identified as Fusulinids and said to compose the majority of the bed.