South side of Kosciusko Island - 1531 (2041) (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Alaska (55.9° N, 133.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 92.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, red shale
• Interbedded red and green shale.
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 111819: 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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Rhynchonellata | |
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818 | |
? Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 |