Island at entrance to Soda Bay, Prince of Wales Island (Carboniferous of the United States)
Also known as 1803a (15 ACh 233)
Where: Alaska (55.3° N, 133.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 74.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified, black chert
• Coarsely crystalline highly fossiliferous limestone and black thin-layered chert.
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 112166: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.07.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Identified by G.H. Girty.
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Anthozoa | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
"Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis Rafinesque and Clifford 1820 horn coral | |
? Lonsdaleia sp. McCoy 1849 horn coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Reticularia sp. Frederiks 1915 | |
Strophomenata | |
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