USGS 13633, Sabetha City Lake: Asselian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus huecoensis (King 1931)
12 individuals
recombined as Reticulatia huecoensis
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928
    = Parajuresania sp.
Lazarev 1982
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia cymbula Hall and Clarke 1893
17 individuals
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella sp.
1 individual
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetes granulifer Owen 1852
30 individuals
recombined as Neochonetes granulifer
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita cf. subtilita (Hall 1852)
10 individuals
Stenolaemata - Fenestrata
Fenestrata indet. (Elias and Condra 1957)
synonym of Fenestelloidea
Listed as Fenestrate Bryozoans
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha muricata (Knight 1934)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Clavicosta sp. Newell 1938
1 individual
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928
Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Nemaha
Coordinates: 39.9° North, 95.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° North, 26.4° 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:Beattie Member:Florena
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:12427
Authorizer:A. Miller, M. Clapham Enterer:C. Ferguson, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-11-13 08:01:18 Last modified:2013-08-31 10:16:33
Access level:the public Released:2001-11-13 08:01:18
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]

Secondary references:

29974 S. S. Lazarev. 1982. On some brachiopods of the Family Buxtoniidae. Paleontological Journal 16:65-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]