ammonites
USGS "blue file" Loc. 14102 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Golden Valley County, Montana (46.7° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 35.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Heath Formation, Serpukhovian (326.4 - 318.1 Ma)

• Lower Heath. JA: late Chesterian is Serpukhovian according to Mii et al. 1999 (GSA Bull 111:960-973)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, gray, silty, sandy limestone and gray, green, silty shale

• Some of the upper Heath MAY be estuarine/non-marine as noted by the author. These localities contain wood and other plant fragments, are non-calcareous and contain no marine fossils. These localities have been omitted by me [MS].
• shale, black, fissile, noncalcareous, contains nodules and thin lenticular layers of limestone. limestone, dark gray to brown, silty, sandy textured, poorly bedded, interbeded with greenish gray silty shale.

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Collected by Gardner and others (1946) as their locality 44-37-138

Primary reference: W. H. Easton. 1962. Carboniferous formations and faunas of central Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 348:1-126 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5648: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 09.11.1999

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