USGS 23061-PC, Yukon River-Nation River Confluence (Permian of the United States)

Where: Alaska (65.2° N, 141.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 27.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Takhandit Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Limestone Unit. About 150 feet below apparent top of limestone unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. E. Brabb and R. E. Grant. 1971. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the revised type section for the Takhandit Limestone (Permian) in east-central Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 703:1-25 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102596: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Neospirifer cf. striatoparadoxus" = Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa
"Neospirifer cf. striatoparadoxus" = Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa Toula 1873