Also known as Loc. 77APa116a
Where: Alaska (63.9° N, 153.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 60.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Informal 2 Member (Telsitna Formation), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• This informal member probably will be elevated to a formation in the fullness of time....
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, fine-grained, gray limestone and lithified, yellow, silty limestone
•Bed: fine-grained, medium-gray bioturbated limestone with silty interbeds and silicified fossils.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: D. M. Rohr, J. T., J.r. Dutro, and R. B. Blodgett. 1992. Gastropods and brachiopods from the Ordovician Telsitna Formation, northern Kuskokwim Mountains, west-central Alaska. In B. D. Webby, J. R. Laurie (eds.), Global Perspectives on Ordovician Geology 499-512 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56192: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.11.2005
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Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
"? Scalites alaskensis n. sp." = Raphistoma alaskensis
"? Scalites alaskensis n. sp." = Raphistoma alaskensis Rohr et al. 1992 snail | |
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Maclurites aff. magnus Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Diparelasma sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |