USGS 13709, Eskridge (Permian of the United States)

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

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 12240: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 15.10.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Ostracodes are listed as being present in the rock but are not listed in the collection.
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella striatocostata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp.
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp.
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Clavicosta sp.
Clavicosta sp. Newell 1938 scallop