Where: Lyon County, Kansas (38.7° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 28.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Brownville Limestone Member (Wood Siding Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• Noginskian stage is reported as equivalent to Virgilian stage
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11679: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.08.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
? Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862 | |
Triticites brownvillensis n. sp.
Triticites brownvillensis n. sp. | |
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? Climacammina sp. Brady 1873 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Strophomenata | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer, Lissochonetes sp.
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
Lissochonetes sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Punctospirifer kentuckensis Shumard 1855 | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 |