Sheep Creek, West Fork, (Retort Mb), Retort Mountain: Lopingian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nuculopsis informal sp. c
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana |
| Coordinates: | 45.0° North, 112.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.1° North, 32.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Lopingian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 259.51 - 251.902 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Phosphoria | Member: | Retort | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Limestone lens. Davydov et al. 2017 dated an ash bed in the upper Meade Peak Member at 260.57 ± 0.07 / 0.14 / 0.31 Ma, indicating that the Meade Peak is as young as uppermost Capitanian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 105349 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-02-19 14:55:20 | Last modified: | 2018-11-25 21:57:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-19 14:55:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27437. | K.W. Ciriacks. 1963. Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(1):1-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |