Where: Gallatin County, Montana (45.8° N, 111.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 10.2° S, 59.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Three Forks Shale Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)
• 40-45 feet below Lodgepole Limestone, 45-50? feet above base of upper siltstone unit.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, yellow siltstone
Primary reference: G. D. Robinson. 1963. Geology of the Three Forks Quadrangle, Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 370:1-143 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7306: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818 | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
"Avonia cf. arcuata" = Dictyoclostus arcuatus
"Avonia cf. arcuata" = Dictyoclostus arcuatus Hall 1858 |