Treadwell Mine, Douglas Island (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Juneau City and Borough County, Alaska (58.3° N, 134.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 58.6° N, 134.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. New fossil corals from the Pacific coast. University of California Publications in Geology 10(13):185-190 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122280: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia boreas n. sp. Nomland 1917 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia arnoldi Vaughan 1900 stony coral