USGS 10906-PC, Sheep Creek: Lopingian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dictyoconites cf. groenlandicus Fischer 1947
see common names

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:outcrop
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: 23.9 foot thick interval, 27.3 feet above base of member. 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:phosphatic lithified mudstone
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:107759
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-04-14 11:56:10 Last modified:2018-11-25 21:59:23
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-14 11:56:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35827. M. Gordon. 1966. Permian coleoid cephalopods from the Phosphoria Formation in Idaho and Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 550-B:B28-B35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]