D198-SD Tinder Creek area (Silurian of the United States)

Also known as 62ABa2842

Where: Alaska (65.3° N, 141.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 47.6° W)

When: Road River Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• 25-foot thick shale underlain by massive silicified dolomite.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Brabb in 1962

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 114955: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 26.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
"Monograptus bohemicus" = Bohemograptus bohemicus Barrande 1850 graptolite