USGS 11933-SD (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Alaska (61.8° N, 154.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 78.5° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ds Member, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• "The strata belong to the upper part of the Ds unit of Gilbert et al. (1990)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, ferruginous, red siltstone and black shale

• Orange-brown-weathering siltstone (predominant) interbedded with minor black shale. Fauna suggests an extremely shallow water, open marine, nearshore environment, normal marine salinity.

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. B. Blodgett and W. G. Gilbert. 1992. Upper Devonian shallow-marine siliciclastic strata and associated fauna and flora, Lime Hills D-4 Quadrangle, southwest Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin B2041:106-115 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3936: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophontidae indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
bellerophontid with spiral ornament
Aglaoglypta sp. Knight 1942 snail
n. sp.
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus, Straparollus (Straparollus) sp.
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus Sowerby 1814 snail
subgn. (Euomphalus)
Straparollus (Straparollus) sp. de Montfort 1810 snail
subgn. (Straparollus)
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
indet. bivalve
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid ossicles