USGS 13551, Manhattan (Permian of the United States)

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

• Shale, silty, very calcareous, light-gray, thin-bedded to blocky; lenticular

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
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847