Also known as I. U. locality 17453

Where: Harrison County, Indiana (38.1° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 13.9° S, 28.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

• Locality 12 contains Somerset Shale Member, Salem Limestone, Harrodsburg Limestone and Ramp Creek Formations that cross the Osagean-Meramecian boundary.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

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.

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 6836: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 27.03.2000

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