Where: Cascade County, Montana (47.1° N, 110.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 13.9° S, 54.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Palmatolepis expansa conodont zone, unit E Member (Sappington Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, oncoidal, silty, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: J. Rodriguez and R. C. Gutschick. 1967. Brachiopods from the Sappinton Formation (Devonian - Mississippian) of western Montana. Journal of Paleontology 41(2):364-384 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7118: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Beecheria paraplicata n. sp.
Beecheria paraplicata n. sp. | |
Strophomenata | |