Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.5° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 28.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cottonwood Limestone Member (Beattie Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
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 12422: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 09.11.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma terminale" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928 |