Also known as Reef 3708
Where: Alaska (55.8° N, 133.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 91.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Heceta Formation, Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified reef rocks and lithified grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: C. M. Soja and R. Riding. 1993. Silurian microbial associations from the Alexander Terrane, Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 67(5):728-738 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79358: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhodophyceae | |
Florideophyceae | |
""Solenopora" gotlandica" = Craticula gotlandica
""Solenopora" gotlandica" = Craticula gotlandica Rothpletz 1908 | |
"Wetheredella silurica" = Allonema silurica
"Wetheredella silurica" = Allonema silurica Wood 1948 | |
Cyanophyceae | |
? Hedstroemia sp. Rothpletz 1913 | |
Rothpletzella | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Tuxekanella | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypoidea sp. Mitchell and Dun 1920 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral |