Sixteen Mile Creek, unit E: Late/Upper Famennian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Strophalosiidae
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Leptalosia cf. scintilla
(Beecher 1890)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Rhipidomellidae
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Rhipidomella missouriensis
(Swallow 1860)
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Craniata
- Craniida
- Craniidae
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Crania rowleyi
Gurley 1883
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recombined as Philhedra rowleyi | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Broadwater |
Coordinates: | 46.1° North, 111.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 13.0° South, 46.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Late/Upper Devonian |
Stage: | Famennian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 5 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Tournaisian |
*International age/stage: | Hastarian | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Kinderhookian |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Famennian | Conodont zone: | Palmatolepis expansa |
Age range of interval: | 365.30000 - 358.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Sappington | Member: | unit E |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | oncoidal lithified silty,sandy "limestone" |
Lithology description: biostrome of nodular calcareous algae (oncolites) and sponges; intra- and internoular brachiopod fauna; silicification of brachiopods in nodules. | |
Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:only brachiopods collected |
Metadata
Database number: | 7126 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Subset of collection #: | 643 | ||
Created: | 2000-05-02 12:40:25 | Last modified: | 2023-08-27 20:59:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-02 12:40:25 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
442. | 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] |