Where: Alaska (65.2° N, 141.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 27.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Takhandit Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)
• Limestone Unit, 250 feet above base of unit (at top)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. E. Brabb and R. E. Grant. 1971. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the revised type section for the Takhandit Limestone (Permian) in east-central Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 703:1-25 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 102553: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferella sp. Tschernyschew 1902 | |
"Neospirifer cf. striatoparadoxus" = Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa
"Neospirifer cf. striatoparadoxus" = Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa Toula 1873 | |
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Strophomenata | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
? Kochiproductus sp. Dunbar 1955 | |
Megousia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Kuvelousia sphiva Waterhouse 1968
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 |