Английская Википедия:Beartooth Butte Formation
The Beartooth Butte Formation is a geologic formation in Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.[1]
Description
The formation contains a basal limestone conglomerate overlain by evenly bedded red or gray limestones (more accurately, limy mudstones) and calcareous shales. It is a lenticular, channel-fill deposit which is some Шаблон:Convert wide and Шаблон:Convert thick at maximum. Most collections are from the talus slope. Stable oxygen and isotope data (Poulson in Fiorillo, 2000) indicate that the Beartooth Butte Formation was deposited in an estuarine environment, with the Cottonwood Canyon section being slightly less saline than the type section.
Fossil content
The following fossils have been reported from the formation:[1]
- Fish
- Allocryptaspis ellipticus
- A. flabelliformis
- Anarthraspis chamberlini
- A. montanus
- Bryantolepis brachycephalus
- B. cristatus
- Bryantolepis major
- B. obscurus
- Bulbocanthus rugosus
- Cardipeltis bryanti
- C. richardoni
- Cosmaspis transversa
- Gosslingia americana
- Lampraspis tuberculata
- Machaeracanthus minor
- Onchus penetrans
- O. peracutus
- Protaspis brevispina
- P. mcgrewi
- Uranolophus wyomingensis
- Aethaspis sp.
- Cephalaspis sp.
- Simblaspis sp.
- Insects
- Flora
- Invertebrates
See also
References
Bibliography
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Beartooth Butte Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Английская Википедия
- Geologic formations of Wyoming
- Devonian geology of Wyoming
- Emsian Stage
- Lochkovian Stage
- Pragian Stage
- Limestone formations
- Mudstone formations
- Sandstone formations
- Shale formations
- Shallow marine deposits
- Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits
- Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
- Paleontology in Wyoming
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