Wadleigh Island, 65ACn 1801, Alaska: Givetian, Alaska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Phillipsastreidae
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Phillipsastrea (Pachyphyllum) sp.
d'Orbigny 1849
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Alveolitidae
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Crassialveolites sp.
Sokolov 1955
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
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Syringopora rockfordensis
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alaska |
Coordinates: | 55.5° North, 133.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 18.8° South, 80.5° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
Stage: | Givetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 |
Key time interval: | Givetian | ||
Age range of interval: | 387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Wadleigh Limestone | ||||
Local section: | Wadleigh Island | Local bed: | 8 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Upper? Givetian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified argillaceous "limestone" |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,peel or thin section,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: Focus on corals |
Metadata
Database number: | 36595 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-02-06 04:49:21 | Last modified: | 2004-02-06 06:49:21 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-06 04:49:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9811. | 1% 15380 | I. I. Tchudinova, M. Churkin, Jr., and G. D. Eberlein. 1974. Devonian syringoporoid corals from southeastern Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 48(1):124-134 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |