D754-CO Tatonduk River section (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as 60ABa121B

Where: Alaska (65.0° N, 141.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 55.7° W)

When: Road River Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, cherty/siliceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Brabb in 1960

Primary reference: M. Churkin, Jr. and E. E. Brabb. 1965. Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian biostratigraphy of east-central Alaska. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 49(2):172-185 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114852: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 25.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Cryptograptus schaferi Carruthers 1859 graptolite
Glossograptus ? hincksii Hopkinson 1872 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Orthograptus sp., "Glyptograptus ? teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
"Glyptograptus ? teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus Hisinger 1840 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae