Also known as I. U. locality 17449

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.0° N, 86.4° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 33.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ramp Creek Formation, Osagean (353.8 - 342.8 Ma)

• The Ramp Creek Formation crosses the Osagean-Meramecian boundary.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray wackestone and 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.

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 unpublished MS Thesis, Indiana University 1-130 [A. Miller/D. Carlson] more details

PaleoDB collection 6820: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 27.03.2000