USGS Loc. 14915, Wamego Shale member, Zeandale LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Chautauqua County, Kansas (37.3° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wamego Shale Member (Zeandale Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• Noginskian is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• Ostracod zone above coal bed

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 11534: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 20.08.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae