Carnegie Museum locality SL 574 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Fergus County, Montana (46.9° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 37.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Bear Gulch Member (Heath Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• late Chesterian

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

• Described as a "low energy shallow tropical marine environment"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM, FMNH

• Specimens reposited at Carnegie Museum, Field Museum, and University of

•Montana

Primary reference: R. A. Jenner, C. H. J. Hof, and F. R. Schram. 1998. Palaeo- and archaeostomatopods (Hoplocarida, Crustacea) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Mississippian (Namurian), of Central Montana. Contributions to Zoology 67(3):155-185 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157238: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 10.06.2014, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Stomatopoda - Tyrannophontidae
Tyrannophontes acanthocercus n. sp.
Tyrannophontes acanthocercus n. sp. Jenner et al. 1998 mantis shrimp