Alaska Paleontological Database

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Report on Referred Fossils

Stratigraphic range:

Permian, Carboniferous

Kinds of fossils:

brachiopods

Quadrangle or area:

Charley River quadrangle

Shipment No.:

No data

Referred by:

Mertie, J. B., Jr.

Report prepared by:

Williams, James Steele

Date:

02/06/1940

[Note by R.B. Blodgett: memorandum found on p. 2816 of Alaskan Fossil Reports, v. 12 (1935-1947), kept in Tech. Data Archives office in Anchorage, Alaska--Request for Examination of Fossils form on p. 2811, Localities of Invertebrates submitted by J.B. Mertie, Jr. on p. 2812]

MEMORANDUM for J.B. Mertie, through
The Geologist-Charge, Section of Paleontology and Stratigraphy,
The Chief Geologist,
The Chief Alaskan Geologist:

Herewith I am submitting a report on two collections of invertebrates collected by you in 1938, in the Circle-Fortymile district, ......

James Steele Williams,
Geologist

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38AMt58 (8691-PC) , Charley River , (S1/2 650) Permian. Southwest side of Yukon River, 3 1/2 miles S 55 deg. E from mouth of Fourth of July Creek.

"Productus" (Pustula) sp., small form

"Productus" cf. P. mammatus Keyserling

Marginifera n sp., Girty, in MS

Spirifer cf. S. marcoui Waagen

Spiriferella arctica Houghton var.

Rhynchopora cf. R. nikitini Tschernyschew

38AMt93 (8692-PC) , Charley River , (SW1/4 NE1/4 641) Mississippian? Cobble found in Tertiary conglomerate on Mineral Creek, an east tributary of Woodchopper Creek, that enters 3-3/4 miles from the mouth of Woodchopper Creek.

ventral valve of brachiopod that resembles very much specimens id. by Girty from Calico Bluff fm. as Spirifer arkasanus Girty