Blacktail Creek, MT-4: Griesbachian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula borealis Bittner 1899
3 specimens
recombined as Lingularia borealis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
34 specimens
"Crurithyris"
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
"Spiriferina" sp. d'Orbigny 1847
86 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Terebratula margaritowi (Bittner 1899)
9 specimens
    = "Terebratula" margaritowi Bittner 1899
Kiessling 2009
recombined as Bittnerithyris margaritovi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
? Unionites sp. Wissman 1841
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Eumorphotis sp. Bittner 1901
4 specimens
Eumorphotis multiformis (Bittner 1899)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
? Claraia sp. Bittner 1901
3 specimens
Claraia mulleri Newell and Kummel 1942
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Promyalina sp. Kittl 1903
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana
Coordinates: 44.8° North, 112.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.2° North, 33.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:44491
Authorizer:D. Bottjer, W. Kiessling Enterer:N. Bonuso, W. Kiessling
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-13 10:44:19 Last modified:2017-01-29 17:26:31
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-13 10:44:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11667. M. Fraiser. 2005. When Bivalves Took Over the World: Global Paleoecology of Bivalves During the Aftermath of the End-Permian Mass Extinction. [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/N. Bonuso]

Secondary references:

30388 W. Kiessling. 2009. Taxonomic vetting of messy data in the Paleobiology Database. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]