USGS 12340. Colamnagavik River Valley: Holkerian, Alaska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Nodospira ornata Yochelson and Dutro 1960
22 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alaska
Coordinates: 68.6° North, 154.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° North, 18.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
Key time interval: Holkerian
Age range of interval: 346.7 - 340.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Alapah
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Goniatites crenistria zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified cherty/siliceous "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Also known as:50 ACh 41
Database number:59937
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-22 10:14:22 Last modified:2006-09-13 16:59:44
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-22 10:14:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16476. E. L. Yochelson and J.T. Dutro. 1960. Late Paleozoic Gastropoda from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 334(D):111-147 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]