Fusulinids from the Howe Limestone Member (Red Eagle Limestone, Council Grove Group) in Northeastern Kansas and Their Significance to the North American Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)-Permian Boundary
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Fusulinids from the Howe Limestone Member (upper part of the Red Eagle Limestone, lower part of the Council Grove Group) are described here for the first time. The Howe fauna is particularly significant because it represents the earliest fusulinids known to occur above the new conodont-based Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)-Permian boundary at the Glenrock Limestone Member-Bennett Shale Member contact (Red Eagle Limestone) in northeastern Kansas. The Howe fusulinid assemblage is composed entirely of species of the genus Leptotriticites. The species L. hughesensis and L. glenensis were originally described from just beneath the new systemic boundary horizon in the Hughes Creek Shale Member and Glenrock Limestone Member, respectively. L. wetherensis is a species from the Stockwether Limestone Member of north-central Texas, which is thought to directly overlie the new systemic boundary in that region. L. gracilitatus is a species reported from below and above the boundary in west Texas and New Mexico. Therefore, the Howe Limestone Member fusulinid fauna is quite transitional in character. The first typical and diagnostic early Permian (Wolfcampian Series) fusulinids in the midcontinent section appear in steps through the stratigraphically higher Neva Limestone Member of the Grenola Limestone (Paraschwagerina kansasensis), and the Cottonwood and Morrill Limestone Members of the overlying Beattie Limestone (Schwagerina jewetti, S. vervillei). This offset of conodont and fusulinid faunal changes should be taken into account in regional and interregional biostratigraphic correlations of the new systemic boundary.
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McCrone, A. W., 1963, Paleoecology and biostratigraphy of the Red Eagle Cyclothem (Lower Permian) in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 164, 114 p. [available online]
Miller, K. B., McCahon, T. J., and West, R. R., 1996, Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) paleosol-bearing cycles of the U.S. midcontinent--Evidence of climatic cyclicity: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66, p. 71-84.
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Ritter, S. M., 1995, Upper Missourian-lower Wolfcampian (upper Kasimovian-lower Asselian) conodont biostratigraphy of the midcontinent, USA: Journal of Paleontology, v. 69, p. 1,139-1,154.
Ross, C. A., 1963, Standard Wolfcampian Series (Permian), Glass Mountains, Texas: Geological Society of America, Memoir 88, 205 p.
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Ross, C. A., and Ross, J. R. P., 1987a, Late Paleozoic sea levels and depositional sequences; in, Timing and Depositional History of Eustatic Sequences--Constraints on Seismic Stratigraphy, C. A. Ross and D. Haman, eds.: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication No. 24, p. 137-149.
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Sanderson, G. A., and Verville, G. L., 2000, Upper Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) fusulinids from Elk and Chautauqua counties, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2000-12.
Sanderson, G. A., Verville, G. L., Groves, J. R., and Wahlman, G. P., 2001, Fusulinacean biostratigraphy of the Virgilian Stage (Upper Pennsylvanian) in Kansas: Journal of Paleontology, v. 75, p. 883-887.
Sawin, R. S., West, R. R., Franseen, E. K., Watney, W. L., and McCauley, J. R., 2006, Carboniferous-Permian boundary in Kansas, midcontinent, U.S.A.; in, Current Research in Earth Sciences: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 252, part 2, p. 1-13. [available online]
Skinner, J. W., 1931, New Permo-Pennsylvanian Fusulinidae from northern Oklahoma: Journal of Paleontology, v. 5, p. 16-22.
Skinner, J. W., and Wilde, G. L., 1965, Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) fusulinids from the Big Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico: Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, v. 16, part 3, p. 95-105.
Stevens, C. H., and Stone, P., 2007, The Pennsylvanian-Early Permian Bird Spring carbonate shelf, southeastern California; in, Fusulinid Biostratigraphy, Paleogeographic Evolution, and Tectonic Implications: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 429, 82 p.
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Wahlman, G. P., 1998, Fusulinid biostratigraphy of the new Pennsylvanian-Permian boundary in the Southwest and midcontinent USA (abs.): Geological Society of America, South-central Section Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Program, v. 30, no. 3, p. 34.
Wahlman, G. P., and King, W. E., 2002, Late Pennsylvanian and earliest Permian stratigraphy and fusulinid biostratigraphy, Robledo Mountains and adjacent ranges, south-central New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Circular 208, 26 p.
Wahlman, G. P., and Kues, B. S., 2004, Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) fusulinaceans from the upper Atrasado and lower Red Tanks Formations, Carrizo Arroyo, Sierra Lucero, central New Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin No. 25, p. 127-136.
Wahlman, G. P., in prep., Pennsylvanian fusulinid biostratigraphy of the North American midcontinent; in, Carboniferous of the World--Midcontinent North America, P. Heckel, ed.
West, R. R., compiler, 1994, Contributions to the geology of the rocks exposed by the "Flood of '93" at the Tuttle Creek Reservoir spillway near Manhattan, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 94-36, 54 p. [available online]
Wilde, G. L., 2006, Pennsylvanian-Permian fusulinaceans of the Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 38, 331 p.
Wilde, G. L., 1990, Practical fusulinid zonation--the species concept; with Permian Basin emphasis: West Texas Geological Society, Bulletin 29, p. 5-33.
Zeller, D. E., ed., 1968, The stratigraphic succession in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 189, 81 p. [available online]
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Wahlman, Gregory P., and Ronald R. West. 2010. “Fusulinids from the Howe Limestone Member (Red Eagle Limestone, Council Grove Group) in Northeastern Kansas and Their Significance to the North American Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)-Permian Boundary”. Current Research in Earth Sciences, no. 258 (December): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.17161/cres.v0i258.11856.
