Milligan Creek, locality no. Mil-6 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Jefferson County, Montana (45.9° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 46.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Three Forks Shale Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• 128 feet below Lodgepole Limestone, 28 feet below base of upper siltstone unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, ferruginous, brown, red siltstone and green shale

• reddish brown siltstone interbedded with olive shale.

Primary reference: G. D. Robinson. 1963. Geology of the Three Forks Quadrangle, Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 370:1-143 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7249: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

• only brachiopods and cephalopods listed
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Nudirostra cf. dunbarense" = Leiorhynchus
"Nudirostra cf. dunbarense" = Leiorhynchus
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Schizophoria cf. australis" = Schizophoria (Schizophoria) australis
"Schizophoria cf. australis" = Schizophoria (Schizophoria) australis Kindle 1909
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904