Where: Alaska (56.9° N, 134.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 65.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Saginaw Bay Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)
• Lower 125 feet of section, "division a". PJW: Pennsylvannian strata on Kuiu Island are Saginaw Bay Formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, carbonaceous shale and lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E.M. Kirk
Primary reference: E. M. Kindle. 1907. Notes on the Paleozoic faunas and stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska. Journal of Geology 15(4):314-337 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 111914: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 30.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Craniata | |
Crania sp. Retzius 1781 | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
"Chonetes aff. trapezoidalis" = Waagenites trapezoidalis
"Chonetes aff. trapezoidalis" = Waagenites trapezoidalis Waagen 1884 | |
Derbya aff. robusta Hall 1858 | |
"Productus aff. schrenki" = Schrenkiella schrenki
"Productus aff. schrenki" = Schrenkiella schrenki Stuckenberg 1875 | |
"Productus aff. koninckianus" = Cancrinella koninckiana, "Productus cora" = Linoproductus cora
"Productus aff. koninckianus" = Cancrinella koninckiana Keyserling 1846
"Productus cora" = Linoproductus cora d'Orbigny 1842 | |
"Productus aff. porrectus" = Kochiproductus porrectus, "Productus aff. semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus
"Productus aff. porrectus" = Kochiproductus porrectus Kutorga 1844
"Productus aff. semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus Martin 1809 | |
"Productus aff. humboldti" = Waagenoconcha humboldti
"Productus aff. humboldti" = Waagenoconcha humboldti d'Orbigny 1842 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchopora aff. geinitziana de Verneuil 1845 | |
Dielasma sp. King 1856 | |
Squamularia sp. Gemmellaro 1899 | |
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
"Spirifer aff. ufensis" = Brachythyris ufensis
"Spirifer aff. ufensis" = Brachythyris ufensis Tschernyschew 1902 | |
Martiniopsis sp. Waagen 1883 | |
? Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Aviculipecten spp." = Aviculopecten, Aviculipecten aff. mccoyi
"Aviculipecten spp." = Aviculopecten M'Coy 1851 scallop
Aviculipecten aff. mccoyi Meek and Hayden 1864 scallop | |
Streblopteria sp. McCoy 1851 scallop | |
"Entolium aff. aviculatum" = Pernopecten aviculatus
"Entolium aff. aviculatum" = Pernopecten aviculatus Shumard and Swallow 1858 scallop | |
Foraminifera | |
"Fusulina aff. longissima" = Quasifusulina longissima
"Fusulina aff. longissima" = Quasifusulina longissima von Möller 1878 |