Don River USGS D2036 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Eurychilinidae indet. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
 Leperditellocopida - Schmidtellidae
Schmidtella sp. Ulrich 1892 ostracod
large
 Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
 Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Leperditellidae indet. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Krausella sp. ostracod
large
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Remipyga sp." = Ceraurinus
"Remipyga sp." = Ceraurinus Barton 1913 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Monorakos kledos n. sp. Ormiston 1978 trilobite
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
"Drepanodus suberectus" = Drepanoistodus suberectus
"Drepanodus suberectus" = Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont