USGS no. D908 CO (Ordovician to of the United States)

Also known as 61-ASn-12

Where: Alaska (65.4° N, 167.2° W: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 38.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, massive, gray limestone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Contains scattered nodules and lenses of chert.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sainsbury in 1961

Primary reference: C. L. Sainsbury. 1969. Geology and Ore Deposits of the Central York Mountains, Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1287:1-101 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 101840: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 04.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida -
Orthida indet.
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod