Also known as Greencastle Junction

Where: Putnam County, Indiana (39.6° N, 86.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.6° S, 48.9° W (Wright 2013)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goniates greencastlensis zone, Ste. Genevieve Formation, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• Dutro et al. (1979: ): Early records referred. these beds to the "St. Louis (Meramec) Group" (Miller and Gurley, 1896), and later ones (Miller and Garner, 1953), to the Salem Limestone. Collinson (1955, p. 437) and Gordon (19Mb, p. 78, 79) have suggested that the fossils may have come from the oolitic Ste. Genevieve Limestone that encircles Greencastle, and this has been confirmed by Knapp (1965), who has studied the fauna. The ammonoids include Bollandites sp., Goniates greencastlensis, and Prolecanites americanus and occur with several nautiloids

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. A. White. 1882. Fossils of the Indiana focks, no. 2. Annual Report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History 11:347-401 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148113: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.07.2013

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