Usage:
Iola Limestone of Kansas City Group (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*)
Iola Limestone of Ochelata Group (OK*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Avant Member (OK*), Keystone Dam Member (OK), Muncie Creek Shale Member (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*,OK*), Paola Member (IA*,KS*,MO*,NE*,OK) or Paola Limestone Member (MO), Raytown Member (IA,KS*,MO*,NE) or Raytown Limestone Member (MO).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date. [See US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200]
AAPG geologic province:
Cherokee 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 ([ ]).