USGS Loc. 13538, Cottonwood LS member, Beattie LS formation (Permian of the United States)

Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.4° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° S, 26.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cottonwood Limestone Member (Beattie Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Limestone, medium-hard, light-tan-gray, massive, weathers blocky and to irregular plates; chert nodules; corals and fusulinids in upper part; coral zone near middle part

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 12412: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 09.11.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Corals listed as being prominant in the collection but are not listed and are unidentified.
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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Fragments and individuals in limestone