Screen Islands (Permian of the United States)

Where: Alaska (56.1° N, 132.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 60.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Permian (298.9 - 251.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.C. Martin in 1914

Primary reference: A. F. Buddington and T. Chapin. 1929. Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 800:1-398 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 112229: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 07.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by G.H. Girty.
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
? Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
? Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
"? Aviculipecten aff. fasciculatus" = Pseudaviculopecten fasciculatus
"? Aviculipecten aff. fasciculatus" = Pseudaviculopecten fasciculatus Hall 1883 scallop