USGS Loc. 13460, Unit D, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation: Noginskian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
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Trepostomata indet.
Ulrich 1882
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| Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"] | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Dielasmatidae
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Dielasma bovidens
(Morton 1836)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Ambocoeliidae
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Crurithyris expansa
(Dunbar and Condra 1932)
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20 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Rhipidomellidae
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Rhipidomella carbonaria
(Shumard and Swallow 1858)
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rugosochonetidae
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Lissochonetes geronticus
Dunbar and Condra 1932
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5 individuals | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
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Marginifera sp.
Waagen 1884
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Fusulinidae
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Fusulinidae indet.
Moeller 1878
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Pottawatomie |
| Coordinates: | 39.4° North, 96.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.3° South, 27.9° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Gzhelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Gzelian |
| *International age/stage: | Noginskian | ||
| Key time interval: | Noginskian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 276.80000 - 264.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Council Grove | Formation: | Foraker Limestone | Member: | Hughes Creek Shale |
| Local section: | Unit D | Local bed: | 10 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The authors placed the Hughes Creek Shale in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray argillaceous "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Limestone, soft, argillaceous; dark gray, massive, weathers gray and shaly and to irregular fragments | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USGS |
Metadata
| Database number: | 11987 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | C. Ferguson |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-09-24 08:58:23 | Last modified: | 2002-05-23 12:10:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-24 08:58:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4157. | 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] |