USGS Loc. 13463, Unit F, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation: Gzhelian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Fusulinidae
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Fusulinidae indet.
Moeller 1878
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Trigonotretidae
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Neospirifer cf. kansasensis
(Swallow 1866)
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3 individuals | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Chonetes sp.
Fischer de Waldheim 1830
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1 individual | ||||||
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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 | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Gzhelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Carboniferous | ||
| Key time interval: | Gzhelian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 303.7 - 298.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Council Grove | Formation: | Foraker Limestone | Member: | Hughes Creek Shale |
| Local section: | Unit F | Local bed: | 13 | ||
| 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. Upper part of Streptognathodus farmeri to lower part of S. binodosus zone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray,red or brown argillaceous "limestone" |
| Lithology description: Limestone, medium-hard, argillaceous, gray-brown, massive, weathers tan gray and blocky to shaly; iron stains abundant near base; composed almost entirely of fusulinids | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USGS |
Metadata
| Database number: | 12049 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | C. Ferguson |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-10-03 13:56:43 | Last modified: | 2011-11-23 11:41:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-10-03 13:56:43 |
| 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] |