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Sample: Sample No. 35AMt536 -- USGS No. 8008-PC
Locality: Field No. 35AMt536
Description: Red Hills, a group of hills lying between the upper ends of Lake Chauekuktuli and Nuyakuk; and about a mile northeast of the upper end of Portage arm. (NW1/4 NE1/4 587) (description from E&R report of Mertie). )[Mertie, 1938, USGS Bull. 903, p. 44 gives following description: "Red Hills, a group of hills lying between Portage Arm and the west end of Lake Chauekuktuli. About 1 mile northeast of the northwest end of Portage Arm"]
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Goodnews Bay D-1
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1936 (02/06)
The following is my report upon two collections from the Nushagak-Tikchik district, Alaska, referred to me under the accompanying letter dated October, 1935. Both collections can be identified as representing the Permian fauna of Alaska. The species which I recognize in them are shown in the accompanying lists.

[Note by R.B. Blodgett: found on p. 2751, 2753-4 of the Alaskan Fossil Reports, v. 12 (1935-1947), kept in Tech. Data Archives office in Anchorage, Alaska]

Report by: George H. Girty
Referred by: J. B. Mertie , Jr.
Age: Permian
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Rugose Corals Zaphrentis sp.
2 Bryozoans Rhombopora sp.
3 Brachiopods Chonetes aff. granulifer
4 Brachiopods Chonetes aff. Geinitzianus?
5 Brachiopods Productus aff. Uralicus
6 Brachiopods Productus aff. Gruenewaldti
7 Brachiopods Productus (Linoproductus) aff. Cora
8 Brachiopods Productus (Linoproductus) aff. Koninckianus
9 Brachiopods Productus aff. mammatus
10 Brachiopods Productus (Echinoconchus) aff. fasciatus
11 Brachiopods Productus (Pustula) aff. tuberculatus
12 Brachiopods Marginifera aff. typica var. septentrionalis
13 Brachiopods Camarophoria aff. mutabilis
14 Brachiopods Rhynchopora sp.
15 Brachiopods Spiriferella arctica

Title: The Nushagak District, Alaska ,  1938
Report by: J. B. Mertie , Jr.
Age: Permian
Formation: Unnamed (Unnamed Permian limestone)
Comment:p. 44

These two collections, though generally similar, differ in some minor respects from one another in the genera and species included. This may be due in part to incomplete collecting but is possibly due in some measure to the fact that collection 8007 came from the middle part of the formation, whereas collection 8008 came from the upper part. In all, about 10 genera and 20 species are represented in these two collections, and together these fossils have been definitely identified by Dr. Girty as Permian.
A specimen of hematitic limestone at the top of the formation was also found in thin section to contain minute fossils, which, according to P.V. Roundy, of the Geological Survey, include echinoids, corals, bryozoans, and foraminifers. These add nothing definite to the determination of the age of the limestone but show the presence of a somewhat different fauna which lived near the end of the period of limestone deposition, when the effects of volcanism in this district may have changed to some extent the chemical composition of the marine waters.

Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Rugose Corals Zaphrentis sp.
2 Bryozoans Rhombopora sp.
3 Brachiopods Chonetes cf. C. granulifer
4 Brachiopods Chonetes cf. C. geinitzianus?
5 Brachiopods Productus cf. P. uralicus
6 Brachiopods Productus cf. P. gruenewaldti
7 Brachiopods Productus (Linoproductus) cf. P. cora
8 Brachiopods Productus (Linoproductus) cf. P. koninckianus
9 Brachiopods Productus cf. P. mammatus
10 Brachiopods Productus (Echinoconchus) cf. P. fasciatus
11 Brachiopods Productus (Pustula) cf. P. tuberculatus
12 Brachiopods Marginifera cf. M. typica var. septentrionalis
13 Brachiopods Camarophoria cf. C. mutabilis
14 Brachiopods Rhynchopora sp.
15 Brachiopods Spiriferella arctica