USGS 13631, Seneca (Permian of the United States)

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
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Strophomenata
 Productida -
"Marginifera" sp. Waagen 1884
Likely Hystriculina based on "Marginifera" wabashensis [MEC]
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878