North of Devilfish Bay, El Capitan Passage - 1191 (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Alaska (56.1° N, 133.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 92.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified conglomerate

• Limestone interbedded with conglomerate and graywacke.

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 111811: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 29.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by E. Kirk.
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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp.
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp.
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum sp.
Cyathophyllum sp. Goldfuss 1826 horn coral