El Capitan Passsage, southeast of Hub Rock - 1715 (2030) (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Alaska (55.9° N, 133.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 92.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Thin-layered limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.F. Buddington

Primary reference: A. F. Buddington and T. Chapin. 1929. Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 800:1-398 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 111803: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 29.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by E. Kirk.
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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Subrianidae
Conchidium sp.
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
? Lissatrypa sp.
? Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp.
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904