Where: Lyon County, Kansas (38.5° N, 96.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 27.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Burr Limestone Member (Grenola Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• The collection comes from the shale in the limestone of the Burr at this locality.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
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 12311: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 22.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Juresania" sp. Fredericks 1928 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
"Allorisma" sp. King 1844 clam | |
Permophorus sp. Chavan 1954 clam | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Dibunophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral |