Also known as Tarkio limestone member, Zeandale limestone formation

Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.5° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 27.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tarkio Limestone Member (Zeandale Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• Noginskian is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 11494: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 17.08.2001

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