USGS Loc. 13653, Unit F, 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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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Paucispiniferidae
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Marginifera histricula
(Dunbar and Condra 1932)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| recombined as Hystriculina hystricula | ||||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Chonetes sp.
Fischer de Waldheim 1830
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5 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Composita sp.
Brown 1849
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5 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Neoretziidae
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Hustedia mormoni
(Marcou 1858)
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Trigonotretidae
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Neospirifer dunbari
King 1933
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19 individuals | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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| Listed as Boring Bryozoans | ||||||||||
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Fusulinidae
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Fusulinidae indet.
Moeller 1878
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Jackson |
| Coordinates: | 39.4° North, 95.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.5° South, 27.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| 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 F | ||||
| 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. | |||||
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: | 12047 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | C. Ferguson |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-10-03 13:43:50 | Last modified: | 2004-07-07 20:27:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-10-03 13:43:50 |
| 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] |