Shell Pine Unit #43-22A, 9475'-9478' (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Wibaux County, Montana (47.2° N, 110.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° S, 75.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hintzeia celsaora trilobite zone, Deadwood Formation, Tulean (480.8 - 474.9 Ma)

• "L. Ord.. upper Arenig"

•Zone G

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; fine-grained, medium, gray limestone and green shale

• "sh, ls and congl., some ss. shelf lagoon, near shoreface. BA2. Cratonic shelf"
• medium- to coarse-grained gray limestone matrix with brachiopod coquinas and large limestone pebbles intercalated with thin lenses of green greasy shale; a few black phosphatic laminae, irregular and discontinuous; flecks and blebs of pyrite and a few minute glauconite grains.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Lochman. 1966. Lower Ordovician (Arenig) faunas from the Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 40(3):512-548 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174363: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

• "Lochman-Balk and Wilson 1967. biostrat. lists"
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Eocrinoidea
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Eocrinoidea "stems"
Eocrinoidea "stems" Jaekel 1918
Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Drepanodus "sp. indet."
Drepanodus "sp. indet." Pander 1856 conodont
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella "sp. indet."
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Nanorthis putilla
Nanorthis putilla Walcott 1924
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Presbynileus "sp. indet.", Aulacoparia (Praecoparia) wibauxensis, Ptyocephalus montanensis
Presbynileus "sp. indet." Hintze 1954 trilobite