Where: Nemaha County, Kansas (39.9° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 27.3° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hughes Creek Shale Member (Foraker Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)
• The authors placed the Hughes Creek Shale in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. The Noginskian Stage is recognized as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage. Strat section given in Mudge and Skoog, 1959, bed 1, p. 235;
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
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 11958: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 21.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
? Cladodus sp. Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Wellerella osagensis Shumard and Swallow 1858 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Orbiculoidea missouriensis Shumard 1858 |