Usage:
Paine Member of Lodgepole Limestone of Madison Group (ID*,MT*,WY*)
Paine Member of Lodgepole Limestone (UT*)
Paine Member of Madison Limestone (ID*,MT*,WY*)
Paine Limestone of Tendoy Group (MT*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. Origin of name not stated by author (Weed, 1899).
Type section: above road along Dry Fork of Belt Creek, at intersection of Currie Coulee, in SE/4 SE/4 sec. 35, T. 16 N., R. 7 E., Cascade Co., MT (Sando and Dutro, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Montana folded belt*
Central Montana uplift*
Yellowstone province*
Sweetgrass arch*
Williston basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).