ammonites
USGS Loc. 13717, Dover LS member, Stotler LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Lyon County, Kansas (38.7° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dover Limestone Member (Stotler Limestone Formation), Noginian (301.2 - 300.2 Ma)

• Noginskian stage is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Fusulinid tests are common in the limestone.

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: M. R. Mudge, E. L. Yochelson, R. C. Douglas, H. Duncan, H. L. Strimple, M. Gordon, Jr., and D. H. Dunkle. 1962. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 323:1-213 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11569: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 21.08.2001