USGS 12348. Upper Oolamnagavik Rivery Valley (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as 46 ATh 8

Where: Alaska (68.6° N, 154.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 18.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-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 59939: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Nodospira ornata Yochelson and Dutro 1960 snail