Where: Alaska (64.8° N, 141.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 68.7° W)
When: Hillard Formation, Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)
• Unnamed in Cooper, but the limestone of this age has subsequently been named the Hillard Limestone. It probably will be broken up into further formations in the future.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1936. New Cambrian brachiopods from Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 10:210-214 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 219912: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Kutorginata | |
Nisusia sp. Walcott 1905
Nisusia borealis Cooper 1936 | |
Strophomenata | |
Arctohedra minima n. gen. n. sp., Arctohedra mertiei
Arctohedra minima n. gen. n. sp. |