USGS Loc. 13730, Glenrock LS member, Red Eagle LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Chase County, Kansas (38.4° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glenrock Limestone Member (Red Eagle Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• The authors placed the Glenrock Limestone in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone

• Limestone, medium-hard, gray-brown, weathers blocky

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 12105: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 08.10.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Marginifera sp. Waagen 1884
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella carbonaria Shumard and Swallow 1858
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Listed as Incrusting and massive forms of Bryozoans
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Abundant