Milligan Creek, locality no. 27 (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as USGS D26(SD)

Where: Jefferson County, Montana (45.9° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 46.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Three Forks Shale Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• 150-158 feet below Lodgepole Limestone, ? feet below base of upper siltstone unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green shale

• olive shale

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: G. D. Robinson. 1963. Geology of the Three Forks Quadrangle, Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 370:1-143 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7304: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

• only brachs and cephalopods listed
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Nudirostra sp." = Leiorhynchus
"Nudirostra sp." = Leiorhynchus Hall 1860
Cephalopoda
 Clymeniida - Platyclymeniidae
"Platyclymenia (Pleuroclymenia) americana" = Pleuroclymenia americana
"Platyclymenia (Pleuroclymenia) americana" = Pleuroclymenia americana Raymond 1907 ammonite
sgn. (Pleuroclymenia)