USGS 12779 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as 51 ABe 5

Where: Alaska (68.3° N, 157.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 17.5° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Alapah Formation, Holkerian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Goniatites crenistria zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, cherty/siliceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson and J.T. Dutro. 1960. Late Paleozoic Gastropoda from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 334(D):111-147 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59931: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
? Bembexia inumbilicata Yochelson and Dutro 1960 snail