Where: Nemaha County, Kansas (39.9° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 26.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Burr Member (Grenola Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• The collection comes from the upper limestone of the Burr at this locality.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
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 12261: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 16.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Enteletes sp. Waldheim 1825 | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 |