ammonites
MV 6801, Surprise Quarry, Bear Gulch (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Fergus County, Montana (47.0° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° N, 35.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Gulch Member (Heath Formation), Arnsbergian (326.4 - 318.1 Ma)

• "Namurian E2b" (E2 = Arnsbergian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, concretionary limestone

• "shallow, marine tropical bay" (Lund 1985)
• "rhythmically alternating sets of microturbidite beds and laminar beds" (Grogan and Lund 1997)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion, soft parts

Collected by R. Hartin, C. Allen

Collection methods: mechanical

• Material is at the University of Montana

Primary reference: W. G. Melton. 1969. A new dorypterid fish from central Montana. Northwest Science 43:196-206 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116660: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2011

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