List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points
Carboniferous

List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points

Section Title: Carboniferous
Table Section Text: None

Epoch	Stage	Age (mya)	Status	GSSP location	Defining markers	Geographic Coordinates	References

Pennsylvanian

Gzhelian	303.7	Candidate sections: Ural mountains Nashui, Luodian County, Guizhou, China	Biologic: First appearance Idiognathodus simulator and close to first appearance of Shumardites

Kasimovian	307	Candidate sections: Ural mountains United States Nashui, Luodian County, Guizhou, China	Biologic: First appearance of Protriticites or 1 millions years older Montiparus montiparus

Moscovian	315.2	Candidate sections: Ural mountains Nashui, Luodian County, Guizhou, China	Biologic: First appearance of Idiognathoides postsulcatus or Declinognathodus donetzianus

Bashkirian	323.2	-	Arrow Canyon, Nevada, United States	Biologic: First appearance of Declinognathodus nodiliferus (Conodont).	36°44′00″N 114°46′40″W / 36.7333°N 114.7778°W

Mississippian

Serpukhovian	330.9	Candidate sections: Verkhnyaya Kardailovka, Ural mountains Nashui, Luodian County, Guizhou, China	Biologic: First appearance of Lochriea ziegleri

Visean	346.7	-	Pengchong Section, Guangxi, China	Biologic: First appearance of Eoparastaffella simplex	24°26′00″N 109°27′00″E / 24.4333°N 109.4500°E

Tournaisian	358.9	-	La Serre, Montagne Noire, France	Biologic: First appearance of Siphonodella sulcata (Conodont). In 2006 it was discovered that this GSSP has biostratigraphic problems.	43°33′20″N 3°21′26″E / 43.5555°N 3.3573°E

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The GSSP point is at Arrow Canyon, Nevada, USA, with the first appearance of Declinognathodus noduliferus.

final_sentence: The GSSP point is at Arrow Canyon, Nevada, USA, with the first appearance of Declinognathodus noduliferus.