USGS Loc. 13780, Unit E, Neva LS member, Grenola LS formation (Permian of the United States)

Where: Cowley County, Kansas (37.1° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 28.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neva Limestone Member (Grenola Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• The collection comes from the upper part of Unit E of the Neva at this locality.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Limestone, hard, semicrystalline, light-gray, blocky, weathers into many thin beds, porous; semiconchoidal fracture; chert nodules in upper two thirds; angular fragments of limestone in middle part; many thin shale partings 0.2 ft in lower part about 1.5 ft from base; fusulinids throught, brachopods in lower part; corals and stromatolites

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 12377: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 04.11.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Stromatolites and corals are listed as being present but are unidentified
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Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella sp.
Wellerella sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Abundant