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
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 | |
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) chesterense" = Orthonychia chesterense
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"Borestus chesterensis" = Salterospira chesterensis
"Borestus chesterensis" = Salterospira chesterensis Meek and Worthen 1860 snail | |
Patellilabia chesterensis Thein and Nitecki 1974 snail |