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)

Taxonomic list

Kutorginata
 Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
"Nisusia cf. deissi" = Bellistrophia deissei
"Nisusia cf. deissi" = Bellistrophia deissei Bell 1941
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae