Productida Brachiopoda

By davidcpowers

• March 24, 2019

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Strophomenata
Order: Productida
Family: Productidae
Genus: Productus
Species: Productus sp.

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Carboniferous
Sub Period: Mississippian
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Visean

Stratigraphy

Big Snowy Group
Kibbey Formation

Provenance

Collector: David C. Powers
Date Collected: 01/21/2019
Acquired by: Field Collection

Dimensions

Width: 12 cm
Thickness: 2 cm

Location

Along Highway 89 N, 2 miles north of Riceville RD.
Cascade County
Montana
United States

• big snowy group
• brachiopoda
• kibbey formation
• mermarican
• mississippian
• montana
• productida

Comments

This is a plate of Productus brachiopods with spines collected from marine sedimentary  brown-red clay shale, which sits on a bed of breccia limestone. Location is slope above rest-stop on east side of Highway 89 N about two miles north of Riceville Rd. in central Montana. Was collected on Jan 21,2019. Prep work was done by collector David C. Powers.