Also known as Blodgett 87ABd76
Where: Alaska (65.4° N, 149.1° W: paleocoordinates 65.4° N, 149.7° W)
When: Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Collection is from a single limestone cobble.
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by Plafker in 1987
Collection methods: chemical
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, R. B. Blodgett, and B. B. Britt. 2008. Ordovician sponges from west-central and east-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory, Canada. Bulletin of Geosciences 83(2):153-168 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100230: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 02.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Demospongiae | |
? Corymbospongia amplia demosponge | |
Girtyocoelia epiporata Rigby and Potter 1986 demosponge
Girtyocoelia minima Rigby et al. 2008 demosponge |