Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (38.1° N, 114.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 51.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Joana Limestone Member (White Pine Shale Formation), Kinderhookian to Kinderhookian (358.9 - 343.0 Ma)

• Name of the formation is in debate (according to this paper). Either Joana Limestone is a member of the White Pine Shale or it is a formation of its own. Eastern NV stratigraphic subcommittee recommended the former.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

Primary reference: G. V. Chilingar and H. J. Bissell. 1957. Mississippian Joana Limestone of Cordilleran miogeosyncline and use of Ca/Mg ratio in correlation. Bulleting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(10):2257-2274 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5753: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.11.1999

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