Where: Alaska (62.5° N, 152.6° W: paleocoordinates 12.8° S, 78.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• "A late Emsian limestone section 38.7 m thick."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: R. B. Blodgett and P. F. Brease. 1997. Emsian (late Early Devonian) brachiopods from Shellabarger Pass, Talkeetna C-6 quadrangle, Denali National Park, Alaska indicate Siberian origin for Farwell Terrane. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 29(5):5 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3948: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.08.1999, edited by Sabine Nürnberg and Sarah Kolbe

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