USGS 6746-CO Seward Peninsula (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as 68ADu16

Where: Alaska (65.5° N, 166.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 37.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dutro in 1968

Primary reference: W. A., J.r. Oliver, C. W. Merriam, and M. Churkin. 1975. Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 823-B:13-44 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100880: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 14.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Cyathophylloides "sp. A" Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Bighornia sp. horn coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora "sp. C" Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Catenipora "sp. D" Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Tollina sp. Sokolov 1949 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites, Mesofavosites sp.
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Agetolitidae
Agetolites sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
"? Murchisonia (Hormotoma) sp." = Hormotoma
"? Murchisonia (Hormotoma) sp." = Hormotoma Salter 1859 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Maclurites cf. manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis
"Maclurites cf. manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis Whiteaves 1890 snail