Where: Cowley County, Kansas (37.2° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 28.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Howe Member (Red Eagle Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• This bed (bed 1) overlies the limestone of the Bennett Shale where 20.7 ft are exposed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
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 12242: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 15.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod |