USGS Loc. 13620, Unit D, Hughes Creek Shale member, Foraker LS formation: Noginskian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Chondrichthyes
- Ctenacanthiformes
- Ctenacanthidae
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? Cladodus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Paucispiniferidae
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Marginifera wabashensis
(Norwood and Pratten 1855)
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12 individuals | ||||||
| recombined as Hystriculina wabashensis | |||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rugosochonetidae
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Lissochonetes geronticus
Dunbar and Condra 1932
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11 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Neoretziidae
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Hustedia sp.
Hall and Clarke 1893
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1 individual | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Ambocoeliidae
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Crurithyris expansa
(Dunbar and Condra 1932)
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25 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Wellerellidae
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Wellerella osagensis
(Shumard and Swallow 1858)
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1 individual | ||||||
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Lingulidae
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Lingula sp.
Bruguiére 1797
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1 individual | ||||||
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Discinidae
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Orbiculoidea missouriensis
(Shumard 1858)
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15 individuals | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Nemaha |
| Coordinates: | 39.9° North, 95.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.1° South, 27.3° West | ||||
| 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: | Hughes Creek Shale |
| Local section: | Unit D? | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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; | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USGS |
Metadata
| Database number: | 11958 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | C. Ferguson |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-09-21 13:52:26 | Last modified: | 2002-05-23 11:48:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-21 13:52:26 |
| 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] |