Gil Harbor, Keku Strait, USGS M1912 (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (56.8° N, 134.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hound Island Volcanics Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Late Norian, Alexander Terrane

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. H. Caruthers and G. D. Stanley , Jr. 2008. Systematic analysis of upper triassic silicified scleractinian corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander Terrane, Alaska and British Columbia. Journal of Paleontology 82(3):470-491 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82656: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 31.07.2008, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
Meandrostylis vancouverensis Clapp and Shimer 1911 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
Crassistella juvavica Frech 1890 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae
Astraeomorpha crassisepta Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia norica Frech 1890 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis (Entomonotis) cf. ochotica Keyserling 1848 scallop
subsp. densistriata
 Cardiida - Cardiidae