Where: Chase County, Kansas (38.4° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 27.7° 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 12186: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 11.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Meekella cf. striatocostata Cox 1857 | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |