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Locality 37, Calhoun County, Illinois, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 39,-90.5833 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on political unit |
Given Location | Illinois, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Calhoun County, Illinois, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Locality 37, Fraileys Shale/Haney Limestone, Hardin Co., IL | Rodriguez J. (1960) | Fraileys Shale | the Fraileys Shale of Kentucky and Illinois is equivalent to the middle Golconda of Indiana; author lists both the Fraileys Shale and Haney Limestone as present at this locality, but gives no further explanation of the stratigraphic nomenclature as to how this is possible [JA: originally entered as "Middle Chester"; the Fraileys Shale and Haney are more specifically Pendleian] | "shale" | 326.4 - 318.1 Ma Carboniferous |
Recorded Fossils
References
Rodriguez J. (1960) Invertebrate Fauna of the Golconda Formation (Middle Chester) of Indiana, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 1-259 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!