Alaska Paleontological Database

Reference Detail

Report on Referred Fossils

Stratigraphic range:

Upper Mississippian

Kinds of fossils:

Invertebrates

Quadrangle or area:

Point Hope Quad.

Shipment No.:

A-59-5

Referred by:

Kachadoorian, Reuben

Report prepared by:

Dutro, J. Thomas, Jr.

Date:

06/14/1968

Note: The other three collections in this shipment are entirely coralline and were sent to Armstrong for comparative study, along with much larger collections from carefully documented sections on the Lisburne peninsula.

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Brief statement of problem and remarks (from collector):
C-164, 204, 205, 208, 203 - chiefly corals, brachiopods, bryozoa, and crinoid stems from various units in the Lisburne group. Can these be used to determine formation or zone in Lisburne? (Probably Mississippian age.)

User Note module to be added

58AKD-C-164 , Point Hope , Point Hopoe A-2 quad., coords. (11.3-11.2); Lisburne Group, Mississippian. Collector: R. Kachadoorian, 1958, notebook 2, p. 8. (description from Dutro E&R report of 6/14/68; Shipment A-59-5)

one specimen of a productoid, probably an Inflatia

58AKd-C-203 , Point Hope , Point Hope A-2 quad., coords. (10.2-7.3); Lisburne Group (upper?), composite of interbedded thin fossiliferous beds representing several tens of feet of section. Collector: R. Kachadoorian, 1958, notebook 2, p. 30.

largely indeterminate molds and casts of fenestrate and sheet-like bryozoans

echinoderm debris

a possible Pentremites calyx

echinoid plates

Inflatia

a large Spirifer, close to S. arkansanus Girty

corals