Where: Pottawatomie County, Kansas (39.4° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 27.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Five Point Limestone Member (Janesville Shale Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• The authors placed the Five Point Limestone in the Permian, but more recent data indicates that it is late Carboniferous. The Noginskian stage is reported as equivalent to the Virgilian stage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous shale

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 11745: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 05.09.2001

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