M1004-CO Hard Luck Creek section (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Alaska (65.2° N, 141.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° N, 56.7° W)
When: Road River Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)
• 2-3 feet above Cambrian limestone.
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 114974: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 26.08.2011
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Malacostraca | |
Caryocaris sp. Salter 1863 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite |