Threemile Cove, Gravina Island - 8831 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as G.C.M.-3

Where: Alaska (55.2° N, 131.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 68.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Triassic (251.9 - 201.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified conglomerate

• Large limestone nodule in conglomerate.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Martin and Overbeck

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 112231: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 07.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by T.W. Stanton.
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Clydonautilidae
? Cosmonautilus sp. Hyatt and Smith 1905 nautiloid
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
? Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809