USGS 10063-SD. 3 m. thick silicified bed 82 m. below top of formation. (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as 79RB12

Where: Alaska (62.1° N, 155.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 44.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus costatus costatus conodont zone, Cheeneetnuk Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Early Eifelian (Polygnathus costatus costatus zone)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. B. Blodgett and D. M. Rohr. 1989. Two new Devonian spine-bearing pleurotomariacean gastropod genera from Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 63(1):47-52 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60044: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Verneuiliidae
Verneuilia langenstrasseni n. sp.2
Verneuilia langenstrasseni n. sp.2 Blodgett and Johnson 1994
8 ventral, 6 dorsal valves
 Spiriferinida - Komiellidae
Komiella gilberti n. sp.4
Komiella gilberti n. sp.4 Johnson and Blodgett 1993
6 articulated, 5 ventral, 1 dorsal
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
Decorospira tasselli1
Decorospira tasselli1 Blodgett and Johnson 1992 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Odontomaria cheeneetnukensis3, Spinulrichospira cheeneetnukensis n. gen. n. sp.
Odontomaria cheeneetnukensis3 Frýda et al. 2006 snail
Spinulrichospira cheeneetnukensis n. gen. n. sp. Blodgett and Rohr 1989 snail
1Blodgett and Johnson 1992; 2Blodgett and Johnson 1994; 3Frýda et al. 2006; 4Johnson and Blodgett 1993