93 D14. Paleontology I

Tuesday, 27 October 2020
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Meeting Rooms

OVERVIEW OF THE BEAR GULCH LAGGERSTATTE, FERGUS COUNTY, MONTANA

Paper number: 93-12
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 7:50 PM – 8:00 PM

Authors

Abstract

Bear Gulch is a section of the Mississippian Heath Formation (Fig 1) located in central Montana (Grogan & Lund, 2002). The fossils found are of Paleozoic age and include a wide variety of fishes, invertebrates and algae (Grogan & Lund, 2002). The superb fossil preservation is hypothesized to be the result of asphyxiation and rapid burial at the same time (Grogan & Lund, 2002). The geological situation resembles the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany with similar flinz/faule lithology and sedimentary structures. The chief source of information is the fossils. Our purpose here is to familiarize people with the fossil taxa found in the Bear Gulch Limestone.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 52, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-357312

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