USGS Loc. 13490, Bennett Shale member, Red Eagle LS formation: Asselian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella truncata Dunbar and Condra 1932
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris expansa (Dunbar and Condra 1932)
4 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita (Hall 1852)
15 individuals
[entered as Composta subtilita]
Stenolaemata - Fenestrata
Fenestrata indet. (Elias and Condra 1957)
synonym of Fenestelloidea
Listed as Fenestrate Bryozoans
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Cladodus sp. Agassiz 1843
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Riley
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 96.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.1° South, 27.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Asselian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Permian *Epoch:Rotliegendes
Key time interval:Asselian
Age range of interval:298.90000 - 295.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Council Grove Formation:Red Eagle Limestone Member:Bennett Shale
Local bed:65
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black calcareous,carbonaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Shale, silty, carbonaceous, calcareous, black, weathers gray, thin-bedded to blocky
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Database number:12115
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:C. Ferguson
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-10-09 11:18:06 Last modified:2004-07-07 20:27:24
Access level:the public Released:2001-10-09 11:18:06
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]