Tatonduk River, Adams Argillite (Cambrian to of the United States)

Where: Alaska (65.0° N, 141.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 70.0° W)

When: Adams Argillite Formation, Botomian to Botomian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

• Argillite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Debrenne and R. Wood. 1990. A new Cambrian sphinctozoan sponge from North America, its relationship to archaeocyaths and the nature of early sphinctozoans. Geological Magazine 127(4):435-443 [W. Kiessling/M. Domansky]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123182: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 13.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Capsulocyathida - Cryptoporocyathidae
Polythalamia americana Debrenne and Wood 1990 archaeocyath sponge