Southernmost Keku Island (Permian of the United States)

Also known as 4311 (234)

Where: Alaska (56.9° N, 134.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 60.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Permian (298.9 - 251.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.F. Buddington in 1922

Primary reference: A. F. Buddington and T. Chapin. 1929. Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 800:1-398 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 112223: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by G.H. Girty.
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Marginifera involuta Tschernyschew 1902
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Productus tastubensis" = Waagenoconcha tastubensis
"Productus tastubensis" = Waagenoconcha tastubensis Tschernyschew 1902
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus horridus" = Horridonia horrida, "Productus tartaricus" = Dictyoclostus tartaricus, "Productus aff. mammatus" = Yakovlevia mammata
"Productus horridus" = Horridonia horrida Sowerby 1822
"Productus tartaricus" = Dictyoclostus tartaricus Tschernyschew 1902
"Productus aff. mammatus" = Yakovlevia mammata Keyserling 1846
 Productida - Productellidae
"Productus aff. gruenewaldti" = Chaoiella gruenewaldti
"Productus aff. gruenewaldti" = Chaoiella gruenewaldti Krotov 1888
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
"Camarophoria margaritovi" = Stenoscisma margaritovi
"Camarophoria margaritovi" = Stenoscisma margaritovi Tschernyschew 1902
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Squamularia aff. perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
"Squamularia aff. perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
? Spiriferella arctica Haughton 1858
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
"Spirifer aff. tastubensis" = Spiriferinaella tastubensis
"Spirifer aff. tastubensis" = Spiriferinaella tastubensis Tschernyschew 1902
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
? Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882