M1003-CO Hard Luck Creek section (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as 63ACa1721

Where: Alaska (65.2° N, 141.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° N, 56.7° W)

When: Lower Road River Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• 4 feet above 1004-CO.

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Churkin 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 114859: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 25.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Caryocarididae
Caryocaris sp. Salter 1863
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
? Cryptograptus tricornis Carruthers 1859 graptolite
Glossograptus sp. graptolite
"Hallograptus cf. etheridgei" = Paraglossograptus tentaculatus Hall 1858 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Isograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid