CHELM-20: Asselian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928
3 specimens
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus magnispinus Dunbar and Condra 1932
4 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes granulifer (Owen 1852)
5 specimens
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
7 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita (Hall 1852)
8 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer dunbari King 1933
4 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
? Punctospirifer kentuckyensis (Shumard 1855)
2 specimens
originally entered as "Punctospirifer? kentuckyensis"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Chase
Coordinates: 38.4° North, 96.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.8° South, 27.7° 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
Formation:Grenola Member:Neva
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous "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:867
Authorizer:T. Olszewski, M. Patzkowsky Enterer:T. Olszewski
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-03-08 16:33:05 Last modified:2013-08-29 22:16:41
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-08 16:33:05
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]