Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 27.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bennett Shale Member (Red Eagle Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12116: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 09.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
"aff. Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"aff. Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873 | |
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |