Where: Riley County, Kansas (39.2° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 27.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neva Member (Grenola Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• The collection comes from the shale in Unit E of the Neva at this locality.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous siltstone
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 12374: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 02.11.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878 | |
Strophomenata | |
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 |