Fern Point, San Fernando Island - 2132 (2017) (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Alaska (55.5° N, 133.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

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 111959: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 01.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by E. Kirk.
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Pachypora sp. Lindström 1873 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral