Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.3° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 28.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Americus Limestone Member (Foraker Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• The authors placed the Americus Limestone in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. Collection comes from the upper limestone of the Americus at this locality. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray 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 11789: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 07.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Petalodus cf. ohioensis Safford 1853 chimaera | |
Cladodus sp. Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis
"Dictyoclostus huecoensis" = Reticulatia huecoensis King 1931 | |
Marginifera sp. Waagen 1884 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer, Lissochonetes geronticus
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite |