USGS Loc. 13804, Red Eagle LS formation (Permian of the United States)

Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.4° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Eagle Limestone Formation (Council Grove Group), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• The Red Eagle is undifferentiated at this locality. The revised Permo-Carboniferous boundary occurs within the Red Eagle making the Period uncertain.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone and gray, blue shale

• Limestone, hard, gray, weathers porous to cavernous to many thin beds 1 ft thick; lower part weathers to blocks about 5 ft thick; some angular limestone fragments in lower part; blue gray shale parting in thin pelecypod-bearing limestone; iron stains abundant in some porous zones; fossil fragments common throughout; stylolites common

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 12107: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 08.10.2001

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Fragments and individuals in limestone