Where: Greene County, Indiana (38.9° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 28.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Beech Creek Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)
• some workers consider the Beech Creek to be a member of the Paint Creek Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous limestone
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: A. C. Brookley, Jr. 1955. The Paleontology of the Beech Creek (Chester) Limestone of Indiana. 1-105 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6887: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Spirifer leidyi" = Anthracospirifer leidyi
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