Head of Saginaw Bay - 933 (2042) (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Alaska (56.8° N, 134.1° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 92.2° 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 111816: 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
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp.
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina sp.
Meristina sp. Hall 1867
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
? Lissatrypa sp.
? Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp.