ammonites
USGS Loc. 13429, Brownville LS member, Wood Siding formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Brown County, Kansas (39.9° N, 95.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 27.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brownville Limestone Member (Wood Siding Formation), Noginian (301.2 - 300.2 Ma)

• The Noginskian stage is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone

• Limestone, medium-hard, gray to tan-gray, weathers blocky to shaly.

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 11665: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.08.2001