Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.5° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 27.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brownville Limestone Member (Wood Siding Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• The Noginskian stage is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

• bed-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 11667: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 29.08.2001

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