M1018-CO Tatonduk River section (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as 63ABa3231B

Where: Alaska (65.0° N, 141.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 55.7° W)

When: Road River Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• 18 feet above M1017-CO.

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, cherty/siliceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Brabb in 1963

Primary reference: M. Churkin, Jr. and E. E. Brabb. 1965. Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian biostratigraphy of east-central Alaska. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 49(2):172-185 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114846: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 25.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Pseudoclimacograptus ? scharenbergi Lapworth 1976 climacograptid
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Dicellograptus sextans Hall 1843 graptolite
var. exilis
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Caryocarididae
Caryocaris sp. Salter 1863