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Report on Referred Fossils
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Stratigraphic range: Devonian
Kinds of fossils: Corals and stromatorporoids
Quadrangle or area: Admiralty Island (Sumdum B-6)
Shipment No.: A-58-11
Referred by: Loney, R. A.
Report prepared by: Oliver, William A., Jr. , Berdan, Jean M. , Duncan, Helen
Date: 03/10/1960

Report prepared by: William A. Oliver, Jr.,
in consultation with J. Berdan and Helen Duncan.

The following corals have been identified in the indicated collections:

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58ALy448 , Sumdum , Transmittal sheets of R.A. Loney, dated Nov. 6, 1958 provide following description: Limestone boulders & cobbles, in matrix of calc. phyllite ls. most dark gray & resembles Triassic(?). Poorly preserved corals? bryozoa?? Outcrop difficult to correlate with known section-any age information would help-even Paleozoic or Mesozoic. Coords: 1.24, 11.50.
digonophyllinid coral
Thamnopora? sp.
Amphipora? sp.
58ALy456 , Sumdum , Transmittal sheets of R.A. Loney, dated Nov. 6, 1958 provide the following description: Limestone, dark gray, massive with irregular streaks of spongy material weathering out on surface-abundant corals or byrozoa-poorly preserved. An island outrop-very critical to date abrupt change to new litholoyg. Espeically important is whether Triassic or Late Paleozoic or older. Coords: 1.86, 14.20.
Thamnopora? sp.
Amphipora? sp.
58ALy448a , Sumdum , Transmittal sheets of R.A. Loney, dated Nov. 6, 1958 provides following description: Limestone, medium dk gy thick bedded, with much brown spongy material weathering out on surface-About 1000' stratig. below 448. Coords: 1.24, 11.50.
a single colonial coral, ....
.... hydrozoan, ....
.... or bryozoan