Prince of Wales Island, Girvanella-Tuxekanella association (Silurian to of the United States)

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

• small coral-stromatoporoid biostromes, 1 m thick and 6 m wide, Girvanella-Tuxekanella association in reef and inter-reef sediments

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
  - Solenoporaceae
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
""Solenopora" gotlandica" = Craticula gotlandica
""Solenopora" gotlandica" = Craticula gotlandica Rothpletz 1908
 Life -
"Wetheredella silurica" = Allonema silurica
"Wetheredella silurica" = Allonema silurica Wood 1948
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
? Hedstroemia sp. Rothpletz 1913
Rothpletzella
  -
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Tuxekanella
  -
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Atrypoidea sp. Mitchell and Dun 1920
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral