USGS "blue file" Loc. 14103: Serpukhovian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp. n. sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Broadwater
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 111.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.5° North, 38.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Serpukhovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 3
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous *Epoch:Serpukhovian
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Chesterian
Key time interval:Serpukhovian
Age range of interval:330.90000 - 323.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Heath
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: JA: late Chesterian is Serpukhovian according to Mii et al. 1999 (GSA Bull 111:960-973)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: none given.
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: Some of the upper Heath MAY be estuarine/non-marine as noted by the author. These localities contain wood and other plant fragments, are non-calcareous and contain no marine fossils. These localities have been omitted by me [MS].
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Collected by Gardner and others (1946) as their locality 44-15-5.
Metadata
Database number:5649
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-11-09 16:36:05 Last modified:2006-08-06 21:32:26
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

348. W. H. Easton. 1962. Carboniferous formations and faunas of central Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 348:1-126 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]