Beaver Creek, Unit H (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Lewis and Clark County, Montana (46.8° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 44.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: unit H Member (Sappington Formation), Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, burrowed, calcareous siltstone

• upper siltstones, sedimentary structures including ball and pillow (flow rolls), channel siltstones, cross stratification, ripple marks, and burrow fills, thin calcareous lenses containing articulate brachs.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7120: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

• they only collected brachiopods
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella sp.