ammonites
USGS Loc. 14825, Brownville LS member, Wood Siding formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Elk County, Kansas (37.5° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 28.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Noginskian stage is reported as equivalent to Virgilian stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Limestone, hard, dense, fine-grained, dark-brown, massive, weathers nodular in upper part; crinoid columnals very abundant, some as much as one-half inch in diameter;

•Fusulinid tests common in the limestone.

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 11684: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 30.08.2001