Where: Alaska (55.5° N, 132.4° W: paleocoordinates 19.9° S, 80.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Wadleigh Limestone Formation, Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• 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.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, blue limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.M. Kirk in 1905

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 111900: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 30.06.2011

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