USGS Loc. 13709, Bennett Shale member, Red Eagle LS formation (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (38.8° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 27.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bennett Shale Member (Red Eagle Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; dolomitic, gray limestone

• Limestone, soft, dolomitic, tan-gray, weathers blocky to shaly; thin conglomerate lens in middle part with minute clay balls; poorly preserved fossils in upper part; ostracodes abundant in middle part and in thin zone in middle of upper half; brachiopods 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 12239: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 15.10.2001

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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod