ammonites
USGS Loc. 14888, Falls City Limestone formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Lyon County, Kansas (38.7° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falls City Limestone Formation (Admire Group), Noginian (301.2 - 300.2 Ma)

• The authors placed the Falls City LS in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it was late Carboniferous. Collection comes from the upper part of the Falls City LS at this locality.

•The Noginskian Stage is reported as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 11731: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 04.09.2001