USGS Loc. 13449, Americus LS member, Foraker LS formation: Noginskian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
3 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
2 individuals
Strophomenata - Productida
Marginifera sp. Waagen 1884
1 individual
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus huecoensis (King 1931)
1 individual
recombined as Reticulatia huecoensis
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella sp.
1 individual
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetes granulifer Owen 1852
4 individuals
recombined as Neochonetes granulifer
Lissochonetes geronticus Dunbar and Condra 1932
1 individual
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Cladodus sp. Agassiz 1843
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus cf. ohioensis Safford 1853
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Pottawatomie
Coordinates: 39.3° North, 96.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.4° South, 28.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Gzhelian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous *Epoch:Gzelian
*International age/stage:Noginskian
Key time interval:Noginskian
Age range of interval:276.80000 - 264.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Council Grove Formation:Foraker Limestone Member:Americus Limestone
Local bed:10
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone, hard, blue-gray, massive, weathers blocky
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Database number:11789
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:C. Ferguson
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-09-07 10:31:42 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2001-09-07 10:31:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4157. 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]