Where: Madison County, Montana (45.7° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 44.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lodgepole limestone Formation (Madison Group), Kinderhookian to Kinderhookian (360.7 - 353.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine-grained, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

• All studied specimens are in the paleontologic collections of the University of Notre Dame (UND), Notre Dame, Indiana and University of Missouri (UMo), Columbia.

Primary reference: R. C. Gutschick, W. F. Canis, and K. G. Brill, Jr. 1967. Kinderhook (Mississippian) holothurian sclerites from Montana and Missouri. Journal of Paleontology 41(6):1461-1480 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Bonelli/J. Bonelli]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41442: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by James Bonelli on 14.07.2004

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