Port Bagial, Prince of Wales Island (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as 15ACh 280

Where: Alaska (55.5° N, 133.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Wadleigh Limestone Formation, Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• PJW: Middle Devonian here is Wadleigh Limestone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Chapin

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 111920: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 30.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by E.M. Kirk.
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Strophostylus sp. Hall 1859 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
? Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Crania sp. Retzius 1781
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
"Eunella sp." = Cranaena
"Eunella sp." = Cranaena Hall and Clarke 1893
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum sp. Goldfuss 1826 horn coral