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Stratigraphic range: Mississippian; Post Pre-Cambrian
Kinds of fossils: See below
Quadrangle or area: Misheguk Mountains 1:250,000, Arctic
Shipment No.: A-78-49M
Referred by: Churkin, Michael, Jr.
Report prepared by: Armstrong, Augustus K.
Date: 12/14/1978

Five collections

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78-ACn-661 , Misheguk Mtn , Traverse along Kavik Creek; near Inaccessible Ridge. Latitude 68 deg. 28 min. 20 sec; Longitude 161 deg. 50 min. 40 sec.

Rock Type: Echinoderm-bryozoan-dolomitic-packstone.

Stacheia sp. indet.
Epistacheoides? cf. E. nephroformis Petryk & Mamet
Calcisohaera laevis Williamson
Endothyria; species and genus indet.
Priscella prisca (Rauzer-Chernoussova)
Endothyranella recta (Brady)
Syringopora sp. indet.
Amplexizaphrentis sp. indet.
Leptaena aff. L. analoga (Phillips) sensu lato
78-ACn-504 , Misheguk Mtn , Approximately 25-m thick cliff forming limestone. Latitude 68 deg. 20 min. 28 sec.; Longitude 161 deg. 37 min. 45 sec.
Globoendothyra sp.
Endothyranopsis compressa (Rauzer-Chernoussova & Reitlinger)
Lithostrotion (Siphonodendron) lisburnensis Armstrong
Lithostrotionella niakensis (Armstrong)
Lithostrotionella banffensis (Warren) sensu lato
Ekvasophyllum sp. indet.
78-ACn-492 , Misheguk Mtn , At end of day's traverse, near bottom of hill along Avan River. Latitude 48 deg. 19 min. 23 sec.; Longitude 161 deg. 41 min. 05 sec.
Thysanophyllum astraeiforme (Warren)
78-ACn-521 , Misheguk Mtn , A touchdown landing on top of the mountain. Latitude 68 deg. 21 min. 05 sec.; Longitude 161 deg. 34 min. 40 sec.
Lithostrotionella banffensis (Warren) sensu lato
78-ACn-282 , Misheguk Mtn , On the south side of a small steep hill which has Cretaceous sandstone in the saddle to the south. Latitude 68 deg. 34 min. 27 sec.; Longitude 161 deg. 40 min. 43 sec.

Rock Type: Silt size arenaceous-calcareous argillaceous dolomite or dolomitic silty mudstone. Dolomite rhombs 50 to 110 microns in size. Rock may be spiculitic. No observable microfossils.

Crustacean fragments
linguloid brachiopod