Long Island, Kasaan Bay, lower section: Middle Devonian, Alaska
collected by E.M. Kirk 1905
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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? Euomphalopteris sp.
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Pachyporidae
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Striatopora sp.
Hall 1851
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Buddington and Chapin 1929 | ||||||
Cladopora sp.
Hall 1851
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Favosites sp.
Lamarck 1816
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Buddington and Chapin 1929 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Sanguinolitidae
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Sanguinolites sp.
M'Coy 1844
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Bivalvia
- Cyrtodontida
- Antipleuridae
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Panenka sp.
Barrande 1881
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Hercynella nobilis
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Hercynella bohemica
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Planitrochidae
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Planitrochus sp.
Perner 1903
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Holopeidae
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Holopea sp.
Hall 1847
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Elasmonematidae
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Planitrochus cf. amicus
Perner 1903
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recombined as Streptotrochus amicus | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Cerithimorpha
- Fasciolariidae
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Murchisonia angulata
(Phillips 1836)
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replaced by Donaldospira pertusa | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Loxonematidae
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Loxonema sp.
Phillips 1841
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Holopella sp.
M'Coy 1851
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Murchisoniidae
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Murchisonia informal sp. 1
d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841
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Murchisonia informal sp. 2
d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Trochonematidae
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Trochonema sp.
Salter 1859
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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Orthoceras sp.
Breynius 1832
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Orthoceras cf. anguliferas
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Delthyrididae
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Delthyris sulcatus
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Rhinidictyidae
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Stictopora sp.
Hall 1847
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Ostracoda
- Leperditicopida
- Leperditiidae
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Leperditia sp.
Rouault 1851
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Beyrichiidae
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? Beyrichia sp.
M'Coy 1846
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alaska |
Coordinates: | 55.5° North, 132.4° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 19.9° South, 80.5° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Devonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 393.30000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Wadleigh Limestone | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The lower of two divisions of limestone (division b) on Long Island, Kasaan Bay. 200 feet thick. E.M. Kirk refers this collection to the Lower Devonian; Buddington and Chapin later revise this to Middle Devonian. PJW: Savage (1988) puts this in the Wadleigh Limestone. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | blue lithified "limestone" |
Lithology description: Hard, blue, fine-grained limestone, fracturing easily in any direction. | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | E.M. Kirk | Collection dates: | 1905 |
Metadata
Database number: | 111900 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | S. Kolbe |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-06-30 02:04:45 | Last modified: | 2023-03-19 15:21:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-06-30 02:04:45 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
36568. | E. M. Kindle. 1907. Notes on the Paleozoic faunas and stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska. Journal of Geology 15(4):314-337 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe] |
Secondary references:
36540 | A. F. Buddington and T. Chapin. 1929. Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 800:1-398 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe] | |
10952 | N. M. Savage. 1988. Devonian faunas and major depositional events in the southern Alexander Terrane, southeastern Alaska. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume III 257-264 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner] |