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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Strophomenata | |
"Productus aequicostatus" = Linoproductus prattenianus
"Productus aequicostatus" = Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
"Spirifer planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa
"Spirifer planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855 | |
| Gastropoda | |
"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 | |
| Bivalvia | |
"Myalina subquadrata" = Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata
"Myalina subquadrata" = Myalina (Orthomyalina) subquadrata Shumard 1855 clam | |
"Allorisma ? leavenworthensis" = Chaenomya leavenworthensis
"Allorisma ? leavenworthensis" = Chaenomya leavenworthensis Meek and Hayden 1858 clam | |
Allorisma altirostrata n. sp.
Allorisma altirostrata n. sp. Meek and Hayden 1858 clam | |
| Foraminifera | |
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