Fossil Plants

Many algal forms are preserved: floating fine filamentous algae, bladed forms (See McRoberts and Stanley, 1989), spherical forms, sea lettuce-like algae, calcareous and non-calcareous dasyclad algae (unnamed dasyclad and Halimeda), and other, less abundant forms. Spiny productid brachiopods are commonly found in the fine filamentous algae.

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References

McRoberts, C.A., and G.D. Stanley. 1989. "A unique bivalve-algae life assemblage from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Upper Mississippian) of central Montana." J. Paleo. 63:578-581.

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