Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.4° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 27.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bennett Shale Member (Red Eagle Limestone Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 12111: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 09.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Cladodus sp. Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch | |
Gnathostomata | |
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