83RB9, south flank of Limestone Mountain: Early/Lower Emsian, Alaska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae
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Medfraspongia tubulara
Rigby et al. 2009
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Stromatoporoidea
- Amphiporida
- Amphiporidae
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Amphipora sp.
Schulz 1883
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | |||||||||
Anthozoa
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Tabulata indet.
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
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Rigby et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Anthozoa
- Rugosa
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Rugosa indet.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Scaphopoda
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Scaphopoda indet.
Bronn 1862
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Euomphalidae
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Straparollus (Eleutherospira) medfraensis
Blodgett and Johnson 1992
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Blodgett and Johnson 1992 | |||||||||
recombined as Eleutherospira medfraensis | ||||||||||
Euomphalopterus sp.
Roemer 1876
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Frýda and Blodgett 1998 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Pseudophoridae
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? Decorospira minutula n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Decorospira lepaini n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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Arctozone cooki n. gen., n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Balbinipleura krawczynskii n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Chlupacispira spinosa n. gen., n. sp.
Blodgett and Rohr 1989
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Porcelliidae
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Alaskiella medfraensis n. gen., n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 1998
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Frýda and Blodgett 1998 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
Quadricarina (? Quadricarina) noklebergi n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Quadricarina noklebergi | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Palaeozygopleuridae
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Palaeozygopleura (Rhenozyga) reifenstuhli n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Rhenozyga reifenstuhli | ||||||||||
Medfrazyga clauticae n. gen., n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Soleniscidae
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Nanochilina gubanovi n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Alaskacirrus bandeli n. gen., n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 1998
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Frýda and Blodgett 1998 | 15 specimens | ||||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Murchisoniidae
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Farewellia heidelbergerae n. gen., n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2004
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Frýda and Blodgett 2004 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Gastropoda
- Kuskokwimiidae
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Kuskokwimia moorei n. gen., n. sp.
Frýda and Blodgett 2001
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Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cuvier 1797
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Rigby et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Ammonoidea indet.
(Zittel 1884)
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Tentaculitida
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Tentaculitida indet.
Ljaschenko 1955
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Ostracoda
- Leperditicopida
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? Eomoelleritia sp.
Abushik 1972
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Beyrichiidae
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Beyrichia (Scabribeyrichia) churkini
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Berdan & Copeland 1973 | ||||||||||
Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
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Nezamyslia aff. jucunda
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Polenova 1974 | ||||||||||
? Scaphina sp.
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Ostracoda
- Platycopida
- Miltonellidae
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? Libumella sp.
Rozhdestvenskaya 1959
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alaska | County: | Medfra |
Coordinates: | 63.3° North, 154.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 2.5° North, 46.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 1700 feet | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Early/Lower Devonian |
Stage: | Emsian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 2 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Emsian | Conodont zone: | Polygnathus dehiscens |
Age range of interval: | 407.60000 - 398.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Limestone Mountain | ||||
Local section: | Limestone Mountain | Local bed: | 13.7 - 15.2 m | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: On the basis of regional stratigraphic correlations and faunal composition, the host beds appear to be slightly younger than the earliest Emsian (Polygnathus dehiscens Zone) Soda Creek Limestone (Blodgett et al., 2000).
(This would be Polygantuhs gronbergi/P. excavatus zone, or 406-403.5 Ma on Gradstein et al.) Note also that "Limestone Mountain" is an informal name. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Lithology description: 1.5 m thick, silicified, richly fossiliferous rubble zone in an unnamed Devonian limestone unit; eurekaensis / delta conodont zones (Fryda & Blodgett 2004). | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Geology comments: Transitional biofacies from the more open-marine environment below into the restricted lagoonal facies above.
The dominance of the fauna by a highly diverse assemblage of gastropods, together with the abundance of the tubular stromatoporoid genus Amphipora in underlying and overlying strata, indicates a relatively shallow-water (shallow part of the photic zone), inner carbonate platform environment. (Fryda & Blodgett 2004:111) |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | replaced with silica |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,some microfossils |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Collection method comments: Cobbled together from multiple taxonomy papers |
Metadata
Database number: | 49107 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner, A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Wagner, S. Kolbe |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-08 15:47:56 | Last modified: | 2016-09-08 20:28:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-08 15:47:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13130. | R. B. Blodgett and D. M. Rohr. 1989. Two new Devonian spine-bearing pleurotomariacean gastropod genera from Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 63(1):47-52 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
255 | R. B. Blodgett and J. G. Johnson. 1992. Early Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Gastropods of Central Nevada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 222:85-139 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
13129 | J. Frýda and R. B. Blodgett. 1998. Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the Early Phylogeny of Cirroidea. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):265-273 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
13128 | J. Frýda and R. B. Blodgett. 2001. The oldest known heterobranch gastropod, Kuskokwimia gen. nov., from the Early Devonian of west-cetnral Alaska, with notes on the early phylogeny of higher gastropods. Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey 76(1):39-53 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
13132 | J. Frýda and R. B. Blodgett. 2004. New Emsian (Late Early Devonian) gastropods from Limestone Mountain, Medfra B-4 Quadrangle, west-central Alaska (Farewell Terrane) and their paleobiogeographic affinities and evolutionary significance. Journal of Paleontology 78(1):111-132 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/S. Kolbe] | |
34239 | 0 | J. K. Rigby, R. B. Blodgett, and N. K. Anderson. 2009. Emsian (Early Late Devonian) sponges from west-central and south-central Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 83(2):293-298 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe] |