Southeast of Point Cornwallis, Kuiu Island - 11931 (910) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (56.9° N, 134.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° N, 72.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.F. Buddington in 1923

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 112257: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 07.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by T.W. Stanton.
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Ceratites sp. de Haan 1825 ceratite
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster