NMSB-5: Asselian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Hystriculina wabashensis (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
2 specimens
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928
1 specimen
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
? Lissochonetes sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
3 specimens
originally entered as "Lissochonetes? sp."
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris expansa (Dunbar and Condra 1932)
242 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella osagensis (Shumard and Swallow 1858)
27 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea missouriensis (Shumard 1858)
2 specimens
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:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Asselian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 1
*Local age/stage:Wolfcampian
Key time interval: Asselian
Age range of interval: 298.9 - 293.52 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Council Grove Formation:Red Eagle Limestone Member:Bennett Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified "shale"
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:817
Authorizer:T. Olszewski, M. Patzkowsky Enterer:T. Olszewski
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-03-08 13:02:32 Last modified:2021-07-01 20:05:47
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-08 13:02:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29. T. D. Olszewski and M. E. Patzkowsky. 1999. T.D. Olszewski''s Ph.D. - Penn State University. [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/A. Clement]