Dry Hollow, unit E: Late/Upper Famennian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Strophalosiidae
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Leptalosia ? scintilla
(Beecher 1890)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Jefferson |
| Coordinates: | 45.9° North, 111.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.0° South, 46.4° 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 "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: | 7146 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 643 | ||
| Created: | 2000-05-02 17:23:32 | Last modified: | 2023-08-27 21:06:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-02 17:23:32 |
| 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] |