USGS Loc. 13771, Salem Point Shale member, Grenola LS formation (Permian of the United States)

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: Salem Point Shale Member (Grenola Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous claystone and gray, calcareous siltstone

• Bed 13: Shale, clayey, very calcareous, gray platy to blocky; many irregular claystone beds; pelecypods and gastropods in lower part

•Bed 12: Shale, silty, calcareous, tan-gray, thin bedded to blocky; thin limestone in middle part

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 12322: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 23.10.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha sp.
Amphiscapha sp. Knight 1942 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus subcostatus
Permophorus subcostatus Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina burmai
Septimyalina burmai Newell 1942 clam