Colpites
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Order: Orthogastropoda
- Family: Naticopsidae
- Genus: Colpites
Species of Colpites present in the Pennsylvanian of the American Midcontinent
There are currently no identified species for this genus in the database.
Geological Range
Morrowan to Virgilian; Extinct.
Paleogeographic Distribution
Texas to Iowa.
Stratigraphic Occurrences
- Virgilian
- Deer Creek Limestone (KS)
- Deer Creek Limestone (Rock Bluff Limestone Member) (KS)
- Deer Creek Limestone (Ozawkie Limestone Member) (KS)
- Lawrence Formation (Haskell Limestone Member) (KS)
- Oread Limestone (Toronto Limestone Member) (KS)
- Stranger Formation (KS)
- Tecumseh Shale (KS)
- Missourian
- Cherryvale Formation (IA)
- Cherryvale Shale (Westerville Limestone Member) (KS)
- Graford Formation (Brownwood Shale Member) (TX)
- Plattsburg Limestone (Spring Hill Limestone Member) (KS)
- Stanton Limestone (Captain Creek Limestone Member) (KS)
- Stanton Limestone (Rock Lake Shale Member) (KS)
- Desmoinesian
- Big Branch Formation (OK)
- Big Branch Formation (Pumpkin Creek Limestone Member) (OK)
- Millsap Lake Formation (Grindstone Creek Member) (TX)
- Mingus Shale (TX)
- Morrowan
- Hale Formation (OK)
- Morrow Formation (OK)
- Wapanucka Limestone (OK)
- Unknown Stage
- Coal Measures (MO)
