Where: Alaska (66.5° N, 167.0° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° N, 37.5° W)
When: Port Clarence Limestone Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• PJW: Dutro (in Ross et al. 1982) puts this in the Ashgill. The rock unit as subsequently be named the Port Clarence.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Ormiston in 1969
Primary reference: A. R. Ormiston. 1978. Monorakos (Trilobita) from the Ordovician of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 52(2):345-352 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100359: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 08.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Eurychilinidae indet. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod | |
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? Aparchitella sp. ostracod | |
Leperditellidae indet. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod | |
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Trilobita | |
"Remipyga sp." = Ceraurinus
"Remipyga sp." = Ceraurinus Barton 1913 trilobite | |
Monorakos kledos n. sp.
Monorakos kledos n. sp. Ormiston 1978 trilobite | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Conodonta | |
"Drepanodus suberectus" = Drepanoistodus suberectus
"Drepanodus suberectus" = Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont |