Also known as Locality 38. Kelly Island Lime & Transport, Rockport Quarry, near Alpena

Where: Alpena County, Michigan (45.2° N, 83.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 29.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortodus kockelianus conodont zone, Bell Shale Formation (Traverse Group), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Seems to be at Tortodus australis/Tortodus kockelianus boundary

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray, blue shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: R. V. Kesling. 1952. Ostracods of the families Leperditellidae, Primitiidae, Drepanellidae, Aechminidae and Kirkbyidae from the Middle Devonian Bell Shale of Michigan. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 10(2):21-44 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167943: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.04.2015, edited by Sam Ocon

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