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Stratigraphic range: Devonian
Kinds of fossils: Brachiopods
Quadrangle or area: Baird Mountains quad., Alaska
Shipment No.: A-84-38
Referred by: Ellersieck, Inyo
Report prepared by: Dutro, J. Thomas, Jr.
Date: 10/03/1984

This report covers two collections containing brachiopods that are too poorly preserved for identification to species-level. Nevertheless, they are generically distinct and the collections can be assigned Middle and Late Devonian ages, respectively.

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84EK49 (10997-SD) , Baird Mts , Light-gray, sandy dolostone that weathers tan to dark brown from first limestone outcrops east of a south-flowing tributary to Kivivik Creek where it enters the gorge and about 200 m east of 84EK8. Located in sec. 30, T. 29 N., R. 13 W., lat. 67 deg. 53.4 min., long. 161 deg. 42.8 min., Baird Mountains D-6 quad.; submitted as unnamed possible equivalent to Kugururok Formation of probably Devonian age. Collected brachiopods at the same locality.
Atrypa sp.
84EK177 (10998-SD) , Baird Mts , Baird Mtns. D-4 quad.; 67 deg. 49 min. 15 sec. N., 160 deg. 55 min. 58 sec. W.; near top of 2750 peak; brownish weathering calcareous sandstone of the Noatak Fm.(?). Collector: Inyo Ellersieck, 1984.
Cyrtospirifer