USGS Loc. 13622, Glenrock LS member, Red Eagle LS formation: Noginskian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
see common names

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 *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:Red Eagle Limestone Member:Glenrock Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: The authors placed the Glenrock Limestone member in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone, hard, argillaceous in part crystalline in part, gray, massive; weathers brown and blocky
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Database number:12057
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:C. Ferguson
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-10-04 19:02:52 Last modified:2004-07-07 20:27:24
Access level:the public Released:2001-10-04 19:02:52
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]