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), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• The authors placed the Hughes Creek Shale in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. Upper part of Streptognathodus farmeri to lower part of S. binodosus zone.

• 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

Size class: macrofossils

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 12049: 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
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp.
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer cf. kansasensis