Where: Chase County, Kansas (38.4° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 27.7° 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 lower 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 12313: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 22.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Neospirifer cf. kansasensis Swallow 1866 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Bivalvia | |
Edmondia nebrascensis Geinitz 1866 clam
"Allorisma" sp. King 1844 clam | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
Aviculopecten arctisulcatus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |