MV 6901, Channel Crop Quarry, Bear Gulch (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Fergus County, Montana (46.9° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° N, 35.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Gulch Member (Heath Formation), Arnsbergian (326.4 - 318.1 Ma)

• "Namurian E2b" (E2 = Arnsbergian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, concretionary limestone

• "shallow, marine tropical bay" (Lund 1985)
• "rhythmically alternating sets of microturbidite beds and laminar beds" (Grogan and Lund 1997)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion, soft parts

Collected by Melton

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Material is at the University of Montana

Primary reference: R. Lund. 1982. Harpagofututor volsellorhinus new genus and species (Chondrichthyes, Chondrenchelyiformes) from the Namurian Bear Gulch Limestone, Chondrenchelys problematica Traquair (Visean), and their sexual dimorphism. Journal of Paleontology 56(4):938-958 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116658: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Cyranorhis bergeraci n. gen. Lund and Poplin 1997
MV 6126
Chondrichthyes
 Chondrenchelyiformes - Chondrenchelyidae
Harpagofututor volsellorhinus Lund 1982 chimaera
MV 6187