County: Wabaunsee

Date: May 2008

Photographer: John Charlton/KGS

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Short description: Fusulinid fossils in Cottonwood Limestone fence in Wabaunsee County. Fusulinids were small marine organisms common in the world's seas during the Pennsylvanian and Permian periods, from about 323 to 252 million years ago.

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