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Sample:
Sample No. 66AMm299 -- USGS No. USGS Paleozoic loc. M1000
Locality:
Field No. 66AMm299
Description:
St. Lawrence Island.
Location:
Alaska Quadrangle:
St Lawrence
Lat.: 63
o
23
'
00
"
Long.: 169
o
51
'
00
"
Reference
Title:
Report on Referred Fossils
, 1966 (11/01)
Report by:
Augustus K. Armstrong
Referred by:
William W. Patton , Jr.
Age:
Mississippian-Mississippian
Comment:
The coral suggests a Meramec, Mississippian age. In the Lisburne Limestone, Brooks Range, this coral in common with Meramec age endothyrids and brachiopods. According to Request for Examination form, this locality consists of fine to medium grained dark cherty limestone, cut by rusty weathering fine grained intrusives.
Occurrence(s)
No.
Group
Name
Qty
Notes
1
Rugose Corals
Lithostrotionella aff. L. mclareni Sutherland
Meramec?