ammonites
USGS 10063-SD. 3 m. thick silicified bed 82 m. below top of formation. (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as 79RB12

Where: Alaska (62.1° N, 155.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 45.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cheeneetnuk Formation, Eifel (391.9 - 388.1 Ma)

• Early Eifelian (Polygnathus costatus costatus zone)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. B. Blodgett and D. M. Rohr. 1989. Two new Devonian spine-bearing pleurotomariacean gastropod genera from Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 63(1):47-52 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60044: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.04.2006