M1017-CO Tatonduk River section (Ordovician to of the United States)

Also known as 63ABa3231A

Where: Alaska (65.0° N, 141.2° W: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 56.2° W)

When: Road River Formation, Llandeilian to Llandeilian (466.0 - 449.5 Ma)

• 17 feet above top of limy breccia.

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Brabb in 1963

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 114860: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 25.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Abrograptidae
"? Retiograptus geinitzianus" = Reteograptus geinitzianus
"? Retiograptus geinitzianus" = Reteograptus geinitzianus Hall 1859 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
? Cryptograptus tricornis Carruthers 1859 graptolite
Glossograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Isograptidae
Isograptus sp. Moberg 1892 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi Lapworth 1976 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
"Glyptograptus teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus Hisinger 1840 graptolite
[entered as Glyptograptus teretisculus]
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae