East for of Grasshopper Creek (= Delaware River) at Osawkee village (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kansas (39.2° N, 95.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 27.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Triticites ventricosus foram zone, Hughes Creek Shale Member (Foraker Limestone Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, blue limestone and shale

• Gray or bluish gray limestone, weathering yellowish (Meek & Hayden 1860).

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. B. Meek and F. V. Hayden. 1860. Geological explorations in Kansas Territory. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 11:8-31 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156790: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 31.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulina cylindrica
Fusulina cylindrica Fischer 1837
Triticitea ventricosus
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
"Myalina subquadrata" = Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata
"Myalina subquadrata" = Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata Shumard 1855 clam
 Pholadomyida - Chaenomyidae
"Allorisma ? leavenworthensis" = Chaenomya leavenworthensis
"Allorisma ? leavenworthensis" = Chaenomya leavenworthensis Meek and Hayden 1858 clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Allorisma altirostrata n. sp.
Allorisma altirostrata n. sp. Meek and Hayden 1858 clam
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Microdomatidae
"Pleurotomaria humerosa n. sp." = Knightinella humerosa, "Pleurotomaria subturbinata n. sp." = Knightinella humerosa
"Pleurotomaria humerosa n. sp." = Knightinella humerosa Meek and Hayden 1858 snail
"Pleurotomaria subturbinata n. sp." = Knightinella humerosa Meek and Hayden 1858 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Spirifer planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa
"Spirifer planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Productus aequicostatus" = Linoproductus prattenianus
"Productus aequicostatus" = Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855