Kirk locality 993 (Silurian to of the United States)

Also known as Small island lying off northeast end of Willoughby Island, Glaciar Bay

Where: Glaciar Bay County, Alaska (58.6° N, 136.1° W: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 91.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Willoughby Limestone Formation, Gorstian to Gorstian (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: D. M. Rohr and R. B. Blodgett. 2001. Kirkospira, a new Silurian gastropod from Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1678:117-120 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55427: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Coelocaulus karlae n. sp.2
Coelocaulus karlae n. sp.2 Rohr et al. 2003 snail
 Murchisoniina - Plethospiridae
Kirkospira glacialis n. gen. n. sp.
Kirkospira glacialis n. gen. n. sp. Rohr and Blodgett 2001 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Bathmopterus liratus n. gen. n. sp." = Euomphalopterus liratus1
"Bathmopterus liratus n. gen. n. sp." = Euomphalopterus liratus1 Kirk 1928 snail
1Kirk 1928; 2Rohr et al. 2003