USGS Loc. 13790, Brownville LS member, Wood Siding formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.5° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 28.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• 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

• Fusulinid tests common in the 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 11683: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 30.08.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Textularian microfossils present in the limestone.
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Fragments and individuals in limestone
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha cf. muricata Knight 1934 snail