USGS Loc. 13578, Burr LS member, Grenola LS formation (Permian of the United States)

Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.3° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 26.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burr Limestone Member (Grenola Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• The collection comes from the lower limestone and shale of the Burr at this locality.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray claystone and gray limestone

• 4. Shale, clayey, noncalcareous, gray, blocky to thin-bedded; iron stains on bedding plains

•3. Limestone, medium-hard, gray, massive, weathers blocky in lower part, irregular plates in upper part; fossil fragments, including bryozoans

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 12264: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 16.10.2001

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes sp. Waldheim 1825
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin