Where: Nemaha County, Kansas (39.9° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 26.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Neva Member (Grenola Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• The collection comes from the shale in the lower part of Unit E of the Neva at this locality.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
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 12373: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 02.11.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Strophomenata | |
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Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 |