Wabaunsee Group

The Wabaunsee Group is a Late-Carboniferous geologic group in Kansas, extending into Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma.^[2][1] The unit is recognized in the subsurface by drillers in Colorado as Wabaunsee Formation.^[2]

Wabaunsee Group
Stratigraphic range: [1]Gzhelian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ (Virgilian stage)[2]
Type	Group
Unit of	Virgilian series
Sub-units	Wood Siding Formation Root Shale Stotler Limestone Pillsbury Shale Zeandale Limestone Willard Shale Emporia Limestone Auburn Shale Bern Limestone Scranton Shale Howard Limestone Severy Shale
Underlies	Admire Group
Overlies	Shawnee Group
Lithology
Primary	Cyclothems of limestone and shale
Other	Mudstone, sand, coal
Location
Region	Kansas
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Named by	C.S. Prosser[2]
Year defined	1895

In locations, some upper members are not present due to a series of erosions that occurred in late-Pennsylvanian time.^[3][4]

See also

• Earth sciences portal
• Kansas portal
• Paleontology portal

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kansas
• Paleontology in Kansas