USGS 13602, Hwy 40: Asselian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Marginifera wabashensis (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
2 individuals
recombined as Hystriculina wabashensis
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus huecoensis (King 1931)
3 individuals
recombined as Reticulatia huecoensis
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
aff. Marginifera lasallensis (Worthen 1873)
4 individuals
recombined as Kutorginella lasallensis
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella sp.
2 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetes granulifer Owen 1852
10 individuals
recombined as Neochonetes granulifer
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
6 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
15 individuals
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Listed as Bifoliate Bryozoans
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Wabaunsee
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 96.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° South, 27.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Asselian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Permian *Epoch:Rotliegendes
Key time interval:Asselian
Age range of interval:298.90000 - 293.52000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Council Grove Formation:Red Eagle Limestone Member:Bennett Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Database number:12116
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:C. Ferguson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-10-09 11:48:09 Last modified:2021-07-01 20:12:38
Access level:the public Released:2001-10-09 11:48:09
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]