Moose Creek Unit E (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Gallatin County, Montana (45.4° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 13.6° S, 46.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis expansa conodont zone, Sappington Member (Three Forks Shale Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

• paleoenvironment not discussed

macrofossils are enclosed by "accretionary, concentrically laminated (cyanobacterial) oncoids"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: summary of earlier biostratigraphic literature within a taxonomic publication

Primary reference: R. C. Gutschick and J. Rodriguez. 1990. By-the-wind-sailors from a Late Devonian foreshore environment in western Montana. Journal of Paleontology 64(1):31-39 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3433: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• list is vague, omits species names, and may omit genera
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Gastropoda
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) sp." = Orthonychia
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) sp." = Orthonychia Hall 1843 snail
P. (Orthonychia)
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris sp.
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris sp.
Tylothyris sp. North 1920
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Beecheria sp.
Beecheria sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
? Rhytiophora sp.
? Rhytiophora sp.
originally entered as "? Rhytiophora sp."
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella sp.
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
"small solitary corals"