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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer cf. kansasensis Swallow 1866 | |
Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 |