Sample Detail of
Sample: Sample No. 59ALy327 -- USGS No. 20225-PC
Locality: Field No. 59ALy327
Description: Alaska, Admiralty Island, Windfall Harbor, Sitka D-1 quad., coords. 2.81, 9.04; from dark gray, slaty argillite with in irregular beds of brownish gray limestone. Collector: R.A. Loney, 1959. [Loney's transmittal sheet of July 29, 1959 gives following description: "Argillite, dark gray, slaty, in 6" to 1' beds interedded with thin irregular beds of dark brownish gray limestone; appears to underlie thick volcanic section. Sitka D-1 quad. Coords: (2.81, 9.04). [Note by R.B. Blodgett: a partial Sitka D-1 quad. sheet is attached to the E&R report copy in the Anchorage USGS Alaska Tech. Data unit. Digitization of the locality shown for 59ALY327F gives a lat/long of: 57o 52'52" N., 134o 15' 28" w.]
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Sitka D-1
Lat.: 57o52'52 " Long.: 134o15'28 "
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1962 (02/02)
This report covers a single collection (59ALy327) which is of Permian age. It very likely represents about the same beds as collection 57AL117 (shipment A-57-6) from the north-central part of Admiralty Island. Both collections contain the distinctive Permian brachiopod Muirwoodia.
Report by: J. Thomas Dutro , Jr.
Referred by: R. A. Loney
Age: Permian
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Echinoderms echinoderm debris, indet.
2 Bryozoans ramose bryozoans, indet.
3 Brachiopods Muirwoodia sp.
4 Brachiopods Spiriferella? sp.
5 Brachiopods Rhynchopora sp.
6 Brachiopods brachiopod fragments, indet.