Also known as I. U. locality 17447

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.3° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° S, 33.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ramp Creek Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• No section was measured at locality 6, an abandoned limestone quarry in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest. The Ramp Creek crops out in the quarry; however, neither the Edwardsville Formation nor the Harrodsburg Limestone were evident. All specimens were collected from a lense of grainstone and rudstone along the south side of the quarry near its base.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone

Collection methods: A substantial collection of the macrofauna of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone, assembled by J. J. Galloway in the middle of this century and housed at Indiana University, was examined for comparative purposes and used as supplementary material for photography. The fossils collected here are exceptionally well-preserved.

Primary reference: D. S. Hirt. 1988. Occurrence and Biochronology of Middle Missississian Brachiopods of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone, Indiana and Kentucky. 1-130 [A. Miller/D. Carlson/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 6772: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 16.03.2000

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