CM, Cinnabar Mountain: Griesbachian, Montana
collected by R. Hofmann 2010

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Tindariidae
Unionites fassaensis (Wissmann 1841)
17 specimens
    = Austrotindaria svalbardensis Foster et al. 2017
Foster et al. 2017
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalinella postcarbonica (Girty 1927)
3 specimens
Promyalina spathi (Newell and Kummel 1942)
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia aurita (Hauer 1850)
10 specimens
(2 measurements)
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula borealis Bittner 1899
12 specimens
recombined as Lingularia borealis
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana
Coordinates: 45.1° North, 110.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.0° North, 32.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Griesbachian
Age range of interval:251.90200 - 251.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dinwoody
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:R. Hofmann Collection dates:2010
Collection method comments: Repository: Paleontological Institute and Museum, Zurich University
Metadata
Database number:150714
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-09-13 13:47:06 Last modified:2016-10-20 13:12:07
Access level:the public Released:2013-09-13 13:47:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

48180. R. Hofmann, M. Hautmann, and H. Bucher. 2013. A new paleoecological look at the Dinwoody Formation (Lower Triassic, Western USA): intrinsic versus extrinsic controls on ecosystem recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction. Journal of Paleontology 87:854-880 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

60793 W. J. Foster, S. Danise, and R. J. Twitchett. 2017. A silicified Early Triassic marine assemblage from Svalbard. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15:851-877 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]