Also known as Remington

Where: Jasper County, Indiana (40.8° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rockford Limestone Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• The holothurian fauna was obtained from water washings of shales which occur as partings up to a few inches thick between thin limestone layers in the upper part of the Rockford limestone unit

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified mudstone and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying, sieve,

• "collected during several years of quarry operations by Mr. Chris E. Alter... this fauna... represents the total number of specimens to come from this location and be preserved"

Primary reference: R. C. Gutschick and J. F. Treckman. 1957. Lower Mississippian cephalopods from the Rockford Limestone of northern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 31(6):1148-1153 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69302: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.02.2007, edited by Loic Villier

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