Keegan Butte, Zone 5U, Wolsey shale (Cambrian of the United States)
Where: Montana (47.0° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 84.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wolsey Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
• interbedded lenticular limestone from upper part of shale slope.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: W. C. Bell. 1941. Cambrian Brachiopoda from Montana. Journal of Paleontology 15(3):193-255 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155746: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.04.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Kutorginata | |
"Nisusia cf. deissi" = Bellistrophia deissei
"Nisusia cf. deissi" = Bellistrophia deissei Bell 1941 | |
Paterinata | |