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  • Lingula sp.

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    By oilshale (edited)

    Taxonomy

    Brachiopod

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Brachiopoda Dumeril 1806
    Class: Lingulata Gorjansky and Popov 1985
    Order: Lingulida Waagen 1885
    Family: Lingulidae Gray 1840
    Genus: Lingula
    Species: Lingula sp.

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Paleozoic
    Period: Carboniferous
    Sub Period: Mississippian
    Epoch: Late
    International Age: Serpukhovian

    Stratigraphy

    Big Snowy Group
    Heath Formation
    Bear Gulch Bed

    Provenance

    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Dimensions

    Length: 3 cm

    Location

    Bear Gulch
    Fergus County
    Montana
    United States

    Comments

    Probably Lingula species A in Lutz-Garihan 1985.

    Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.

    References:

    Lutz-Garihan, A. B. (1979) Brachiopods from the Upper Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana. Compte Rendu, Neuvième Congrès International de Stratigraphie et de Géologie du Carbonifère, 5: 457-467.

     

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    oilshale

    Thanks Herb, brachs are not so common at Bear Gulch.

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