MV 7604, Blacktail Pillar, Bear Gulch (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Fergus County, Montana (47.0° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 35.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Gulch Member (Heath Formation), Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 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, Lund

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Material is at the University of Montana

Primary reference: K. A. Lowney. 1980. Certain Bear Gulch (Namurian A, Montana) Acinopterygii (Osteichthyes) and a reevaluation of the evolution of the Paleozoic actinopterygians. [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 227060: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 26.08.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Fubarichthyiformes - Fubarichthyidae
Fubarichthys prolatus
Fubarichthys prolatus Lowney 1980
UMVP 7771