Locality 15. North-south tributary to Deer Creek 3ΒΌ miles south of Lola (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as W.M. GK12. Stuart Weller 1920. Near Old Salem School and Livingston School

Where: Livingston County, Kentucky (37.3° N, 88.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 24.3° S, 41.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Glenn Dean Formation (Okaw Group), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• Uppermost Hombergian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone

• decomposed layers of very siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: M.L. Thein and M.H. Nitecki. 1974. Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin. Fieldiana: Geology, New Series 34:1-238 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59827: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) chesterense" = Orthonychia chesterense
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) chesterense" = Orthonychia chesterense Meek and Worthen 1867 snail
var. 3
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Borestus chesterensis" = Salterospira chesterensis
"Borestus chesterensis" = Salterospira chesterensis Meek and Worthen 1860 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Patellilabia chesterensis Thein and Nitecki 1974 snail