USGS Loc. 13732, Howe LS member, Red Eagle LS formation (Permian of the United States)

Where: Chase County, Kansas (38.4° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 27.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed 18

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Limestone, soft, tan-brown, weathers blocky; lower two-thirds porous to cavernous; ostracode zone 0.3 ft thickand 0.3 ft from top

Size class: mesofossils

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 12241: 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