Cedar Creek Gulch, Beaverhead County: Lopingian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella sp. Hall 1858
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Pseudopermophorus annettae Ciriacks 1963
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis informal sp. c
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 112.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.1° North, 33.1° 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: 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"
Lithology description: Limestone tongue of Retort Member
Environment:marine indet.
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:88662
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-17 17:18:27 Last modified:2018-11-25 21:56:58
Access level:the public Released:2009-04-17 17:18:27
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]