Sage Mbr, Snowy Range Fm (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as HG#94.1

Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 81.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Illaenurus zone, Sage Member (Snowy Range Formation), Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Represent storm deposits. The formation as a whole represents a transitional facies, intermediate between nearshore clastics and outer-shel carbonates. The Sage Member (occurence of hardgrounds) is 36-67m thick with the hardgrounds forming on upper surfaces of carbonate, flat pebble conglomerates.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed, hardground, flat-pebble, carbonaceous conglomerate

• General lithology of member: Greenish-gray, soft shale with abundant interbedded greenish carbonate, flat pebble conglomerates (intrasparrudites), calcarenites (biosparite), calcisilites (biopelmicrites and biopelsparites) and columnar to tabular algal limestones. Specimens associated with the hardgrounds. Lithology/placement of hardgrounds: upper surfaces of carbonate, flat pebble conglomerates.

Primary reference: C. E. Brett, W. D. Liddell, and K. L. Derstler. 1983. Late Cambrian hard substrate communities from Montana/Wyoming: the oldest known hardground encrusters. Lethaia 16(4):281-289 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9920: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 31.01.2001

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
represents at least 2 other unknown echinoderms and the unknown pelmatozoan holdfast
Edrioasteroidea
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Edrioasteroidea indet. Billings 1858
Stylophora
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Stylophora indet. Gill and Caster 1960
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
tentative identification