USGS 13831, Greenwood County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Greenwood County, Kansas (38.1° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 27.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous siltstone

• Shale, silty, calcareous, tan-gray, thin-bedded, becomes blocky in upper part; brachiopods abundant; fusulinids in lower part

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 12438: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 13.11.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet.
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp.
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp.
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha cf. muricata
Amphiscapha cf. muricata Knight 1934 snail
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878