Annotated Bibliography 

of Alaskan Paleozoic 

Paleontology

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1021-H

A CONTRIBUTION TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALASKAN PALEOZOIC 

PALEONTOLOGY

By J. Thomas Dutro, Jr.

ABSTRACT

Most papers published before June 1954 that deal with Alaskan Paleozoic 

paleontology are concerned primarily with stratigraphy; only a few papers are 

concerned primarily with taxonomy. The Upper Silurian brachiopod fauna from 

southeastern Alaska is the best documented. Ordovician cephalopods from 

Seward Peninsula, Ordovician and Silurian graptolites, Cambrian and Ordovician brachiopods and trilobites from the Eagle-Circle district, Devonian 

fossils from Porcupine valley, and Mississippian lithostrotionid corals have 

also been described. The papers are cross indexed.

INTRODUCTION

This bibliography presents a comprehensive compilation of 

paleontologic information that was accumulated during the preparation of the new geologic map of Alaska.

In the past 55 years many paleontologists have studied Paleozoic fossils from Alaska, but most of the work has been done by 

G. H. Girty, E. M. Kindle, Edwin Kirk, and Charles Schuchert. 

Nearly everything that was published on the faunas or correlation 

of Carboniferous and Permian rocks from 1900 to 1945 was the 

direct result of Girty's efforts. A comparable statement can be 

made of Edwin Kirk's work on faunas from the early Paleozoic 

systems.

An attempt has been made to include not only taxonomic publications and papers that contain extensive faunal lists and correlations, but also all published work that indicates fossils were 

studied or age determinations were made on the basis of examination of fossil material. For example, if the statement "Middle 

Devonian corals were identified by Edwin Kirk" is made, the 

paper has been cited; however, if the reference is only to "rocks 

of Middle Devonian age," the paper has not been cited.

Few taxonomic paleontologic papers, especially dealing with 

upper Paleozoic faunas, have been published. Perhaps the best 

known is the Upper Silurian brachiopod fauna (Kirk, 1922, 1926, and 

1927; Kirk and Amsden, 1952) 0 However, even for this fauna much 

descriptive work remains to be done. A few Cambrian brachiopods 

and trilobites have been described (Cooper, 1936; Ulrich and

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Cooper, 1938; Kobayashi, 1935 and 1936a), Lower Ordovician 

cephalopoda from Seward Peninsula have been described and discussed (Flower, 1941a, 1941b, and 1946; Miller and Kurnmel, 

1945). Several Ordovician and Silurian graptolite species were 

described by Ruedemann (1947). Devonian coral species were 

first described by Meek (1867), and two of these were redescribed 

by S. Smith (1945). A few Mississippian lithostrotionid coral 

species were described by Hayasaka (1936), and a new genus was 

described by-Harker and McLaren (1952).

Taxonomic papers are indicated by asterisks. Particularly 

important summaries and papers that present many faunal lists 

are indicated by daggers. Editorial comments are enclosed in 

brackets. Special effort has been made to include all papers published before January 1954.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

*Bassler, R. S., 1937, The Paleozoic rugose coral family Paleocyclidae: Jour. 

Paleontology, v. 11, no. 3, p. 189-201, pis. 30-32.

Page j 90. Short description and reproduction of original illustrations of

Paleocyclus kirbyi [see Meek, 1868].

___ 1950, Fauna! lists and descriptions of Paleozoic corals: Geol. Soc. 

America Mem. 44, 315 p., 20 pis.

Pages 20, 77, 167-168, and 220. Lists coral faunas of Richmond age, 

of Silurian age from Seward Peninsula, of early Upper Devonian age from 

Porcupine River, and of early Carboniferous age [see S. Smith, 1945,and 

Hayasaka, 1936].

Bassler, R. S., and Moodey, M. W., 1943, Bibliographic and fauna! index of 

Paleozoic pelmatozoan'echinoderms: Geol. Soc. America Spec. Paper 45, 

734 p.

Pages 17, in, and 366. Reference to ciithrocrinus Kirk from supposed 

lower Pennsylvanian rocks of southeastern Alaska. [ See Kirk, 1937a and 

1937b. Age of beds from which this crinoid came is doubtful. ]

Bowsher, A. L., and Dutro, J. T., Jr., 1950, Stratigraphy and paleontology 

of the Mississippian rocks in the central part of the Brooks Range, Alaska 

[abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 61, no. 12, p. 1445.

Age and correlation of Mississippian rocks and faunas in northern Alaska. 

Overlying a lower Mississippian nonmarine formation is a shale that contains 

marine faunas resembling those of Kinderhook age; overlying the shale is 

the Lisburne limestone, which contains faunas ranging in age from Osage 

to late Mississippian.

Brooks, A. H., 1900a, A reconnaissance in the White and Tanana River basins, 

Alaska, in 1898: U. S. Geol. Survey, 20th Ann. Rept., pt. 7, p. 425-494.

Page 472. One collection of fossils from Wellesley formation reputed 

by Charles Schuchert to be of Devonian or Carboniferous age; discussion of 

correlation included.

___ 1900b, A reconnaissance from Pyramid Harbor to Eagle City, Alaska, 

including a description of the copper deposits of the upper White and 

Tanana Rivers: U. S. Geol. Survey, 21st Ann. Rept., pt. 2, p. 331-391.

Page 359. Collection of fossils from Kletsan Creek, upper White 

River basin, examined by Charles Schuchert; age designated as upper 

Carboniferous; forms listed are Productus cora, Productus, two undet.

Species, Seminula Sp. , Stenopora Sp. , and Fusulina (not F. cylindrica)

[ age now considered Permian]. Wellesley formation dated as Devonian or 

Carboniferous on basis of a few fossil collections; no fossil lists.

___ 1902a, Preliminary report on the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska, 

with an introductory sketch of the geology of southeastern Alaska: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Prof. Paper 1, 120 p.

Pages 19-24 . Fossils from Drake Island, Glacier Bay, determined by 

Charles Schuchert to be of Late Silurian age; fauna! list; a single coral from 

Dirt glacier moraine dated as Middle Devonian. Relationship of Paleozoic 

rocks in southeastern Alaska and British Columbia discussed.

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256 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Brooks, A. H., 1902b, Geological reconnaissances in southeastern Alaska: 

Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 13, p. 253-266.

Upper Silurian and Middle Devonian fossils from Drake Island and Dirt 

glacier respectively (Glacier Bay area), reported by Charles Schuchert 

[same information given by Brooks, 1902a].

*___ 1906, The geography and geology of Alaska, a summary of existing 

knowledge, with a section on climate, by Cleveland Abbe, Jr., and a topographic map and description thereof, by R. U. Goode: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Prof. Paper 45, 327 p.

Pages 2^0-225 . Stratigraphic summary of formations and provisional 

correlations. No fossil lists. [ Most of this information has been superseded 

by later work. ]

___ 1911, The Mount McKinley region, Alaska, with descriptions of the 

igneous rocks and of the Bonnifield and Kantishna districts, byL. M. Prindle: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 70, 234 p.

Pages 66-84 . Small Ordovician graptolite fauna from Tatina group listed; 

age determined by Charles Schuchert. Tonzona group assigned Silurian or 

Devonian age [no fossil evidence]. Several collections of late Middle or 

early Late Devonian age from a limestone that overlies, 'probably unconformably, the Tonzona group. [The Cantwell formation incorrectly assigned 

to Carboniferous( ?). ]

Brooks, A. H., and others, 1901, A reconnaissance of the Cape Nome and 

adjacent gold fields of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, in 1900: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Spec. Pub., 222 p.

Page 31. Report by G. H. Girty on fragmentary fossils from gravels 

near Teller Mission, thought to have come from "Nome series;" age designated as "Lower Ordovician, suggesting an affinity with that of the Pogonip 

group of Nevada."

Brooks, A. H., and Kindle, E. M., 1908, Paleozoic and associated rocks of 

the upper Yukon, Alaska: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 19, p. 255-314, 2pls.

Describes stratigraphy, structure, and geologic history and gives lists 

of fossils from localities in the area extending from 141° to 152° W. longitude 

and from the Tanana River northward to about the 67th parallel, including 

regions drained by the Porcupine, Yukon, and Tanana Rivers. Compiles 

all information available before 1908. Calico Bluff and Nation River formations defined.

'Brown, J. S., 1924, The Nixon Fork country and silver-lead prospects near

Ruby: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 783-D, p. 97-150.

p a & BS 103-107 and 125-. Fossils of Late Ordovician, Silurian, and possible Devonian age reported on by Edwin Kirk; faunal lists. G. H. Oirty's 

identification of four Permian collections also listed; author states, "The 

fauna is Obviously that which has been identified in Alaska as Permian 

(Artinskian) and which is best known from exposures on Kuiu Island and on 

Yukon River opposite the mouth of Nation River."

Bruet, E., 1945, L'Alaska: Payot, Paris, 451 p., 36 figs., 13 maps, and

14 photos. -

Pages 140-147 . Summarizes PaleOZOiC Stratigraphy and general distribution of systems in Alaska; general references made to fossils and 

faunas and their ages. [ Information is about the same as that given by 

P. S. Smith, 1939.]
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Buckland, W., 1839, Geology, in Richardson, J., and others, The Zoology of 

Captain Beechey's voyage, p. 157-180, illus. London.

Pages ni-i73. States that fossils from Cape Thomson [sic] and Cape 

Lisburne areas are indistinguishable from those of the Derbyshire limestone. Lists "producta Martini, other productae, lithostrotion, flustrae, 

and trilobites. "

Buddington, A. F., 1923, Mineral deposits of the Wrangell district: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 739-B, p. 51-75.

Pages 52-53. Refers to graptolitic beds near Wrangell [ see Kirkl918a] 

as of Silurian age or older. Limestone beds on Duncan Canal contain fossils 

identified as Middle Devonian by Edwin Kirk.

Buddington, A. F. and Chapin, Theodore, 1929, Geology and mineral deposits 

of southeastern Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 800, 398 p.

Pages 49 and 72-130. Extensive discussion of faunas and ages of Paleozoic 

rocks of southeastern Alaska. Lower and Middle Ordovician faunas of 

Prince of Wales, Kuiu, and neighboring islands listed. Lower, Middle, and 

Upper Silurian faunas, widely distributed throughout Alexander Archipelago 

and the Glacier Bay vicinity, tabulated. Middle and Upper Devonian faunas 

from Prince of Wales and adjacent islands, Kupreanof Island, andChichagof 

Island discussed and listed. Most Devonian and Silurian determinations 

made by Edwin Kirk; Ordovician and Lower Silurian graptolite faunas studied 

by Rudolf Ruedemann. Reports by G. H. Girty on the Mississippian rocks 

at Soda Bay, Trocadero Bay, Klawak Inlet, Kuiu Island, and elsewhere, 

quoted; one collection from Soda Bay provisionally assigned to the 

Pennsylvanian; many collections from Kuiu, Keku, Kupreanof, Admiralty, 

and Suemez Islands tentatively correlated with the Artinskian of the Russian 

Permian, although some may be as old as late Pennsylvanian.

Burchard, E. F., 1913, Marble resources of Ketchikan and Wrangell districts: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 542-B, p. 52-77.

Pages 60 and 66. Limestone beds on Marble and Heceta Islands contain 

fossils of possible Devonian age, according to Edwin Kirk [these fossils 

now considered Silurian; see Buddington and Chapin, 1929, p. 94].

Cairnes, D. D., 1913, Geological section along the Yukon-Alaska boundary 

between Yukon and Porcupine Rivers [abs. ]: Geol. Soc. America Bull., 

v. 24, no. 4, p. 678-679.

Mentions graptolite collection [ no age given] and first Cambrian fossils 

found in this region [ see Cairnes, 1914b].

___ 1914a, Geological section along the Yukon-Alaska boundary line between 

Yukon and Porcupine Rivers: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 25, p. 179-204, 

pis. 4-8.

Discussion of stratigraphy and paleontology of the Paleozoic section in 

the boundary region. [Cairnes, 1914b, modified information given in this 

paper and presented more paleontologic data. ]

t___ 1914b, The Yukon-Alaska International Boundary, between Porcupine 

and Yukon Rivers: Canada Geol. Survey Mem. 67, 161 p., 16 pis., 

2 figs, 2 maps.

Discusses ages and correlations of Paleozoic faunas collected in the 

period 1911-12 on Yukon-Alaska boundary survey. Pages 63-75. Cambrian, 

Ordovician, and Silurianfaunal lists. Pages 77-81. Devonian faunal lists, 

prepared by E. M. Kindle. Pages 94-103 . Carboniferous faunal lists,
258 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

prepared by G. H. Girty. Pre-Devonian fossils studied by E. M. Kindle, 

Lawrence Lambe, L. D. Burling, R. Ruedemann, and W. A. Parks, [see 

Mertie, 1930 and 1933, for revision of stratigraphic significance of these 

collections. ]

Capps, S. R., 1916, The Chisana-White River district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 630, 130 p.

Pages 32, 33, and '40-45 . Edwin Kirk reports probable Middle Devonian 

age for single collection from Bonanza Creek. Detailed lists, prepared by 

G. H. Girty, of fossils from upper Carboniferous rocks [seeMoffit, 1938, 

for later modifications].

___ 1933, The eastern portion of Mount McKinley National Park: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 836-D, p. 219-300.

Page 255. Discusses age of Middle Devonian rocks from which two 

small collections of fossils have been made. No fossil lists.

___ 1940, Geology of the Alaska Railroad region: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 907, 201 p.

Pages 97-107 and 136-142. Stratigraphic relationship of Paleozoic 

formations in Alaska Range and Yukon-Tanana region discussed. References made to paleontologic information in earlier publications [especially 

Mertie, 1937b]. No fauna! lists.

Case, E. C., 1919, The environment of vertebrate life in the late Paleozoic 

in North America; a paleogeographic study: Carnegie Inst. Washington 

Pub. 283, 273 p., 8 figs.

Pages 179-186. Summarizes known data on stratigraphy and age of 

upper Paleozoic rocks in Alaska. Pages 216-219. Interpretation of conditions at end of Paleozoic in Alaska and British Columbia. [Age determinatkJns should be revised in light of later work; see Girty, 1927, and 

Mertie, 1930.]

Chapin, Theodore, 1918, The structure and stratigraphy of Gravina and 

Revillagigedo Islands, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 120-D, 

p. 83-100.

Pages 88, 89, and 92-94. Discusses probable Middle Devonian rocks on 

Vallenar Bay. Discusses age and correlation of beds of schist and limestone northeast of Ketchikan on George Arm; tentative late Carboniferous 

age not based on new fossil collections. Discusses stratigraphic relationShip of Triassic and older rocks.

Collier, A. J., 1902, A reconnaissance of the northwestern portion of Seward 

Peninsula, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 2, 70 p.

Pages 20-22 and 24. Fossils from Port Clarence assigned by Charles 

Schuchert to "middle of the Lower Silurian system" [now Ordovician 

system]. Faunal lists and discussion of correlation. One poor collection 

of fossils from the Kugruk group on Baldy Mountain dated as either Upper 

Silurian [true Silurian] or Devonian.

___ 1905, Coal fields of the Cape Lisburne region; U, S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 259, p. 172-185.

Pages 174-175 and 182. Discusses Carboniferous plants and invertebrates from Lisburne limestone and underlying rocks [ see Collier, 1906, 

for detail].

f ___ 1906, Geology and coal resources of the Cape Lisburne region, Alaska: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 278, 54 p., 9 pis.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 259

Pages is, 19,. 22-26, and 35. Detailed stratigraphy. Reports on fossil 

plants by David White (lower Mississipian) and on fossil invertebrates by 

G. H. Girty (lower Carboniferous).

Collier, A. J., Hess, F. L., Smith, P. S., and Brooks, A. H., 1908, The 

gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, 

Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 328, 343 p.

Pages 75-79. Extensive quotation from reports by CharlesSchuchert 

dating most of Port Clarence limestone collections as Silurian; report by 

E. 0. Ulrich cited as evidence of Ordovician age of some of the fossil 

material; authors think all the fossils are from about same stratigraphic 

position and that either Ordovician or Silurian age will be proved at some 

future date [see Steidtmann andCathcart, 1922], Page «J. Quotes report 

of G. H. Girty that assigns lower Carboniferous age to lithostrotionid 

corals from the limestone near Palazruk.

*Cooper, G. A., 1936, New Cambrian brachiopods from Alaska: Jour. 

Paleontology, v. 10, no. 3, p. 210-214, 1 pi.

Descriptions of 4 (3 are new) Middle Cambrian species and 1 new genus 

based on specimens collected by J. B. Mertie, Jr., northeast of Eagle,

Alaska. New genus Arctohedra and new Species A. minima and A. mertiei

proposed. New features of tfisusia Walcott recorded. New species 

N. boreaiia described.

*___1944, Phylum Brachiopoda, in Shimer, H. W., and Shrock, R. R., 

Index fossils of North America: 837 p., 303 pis, New York, John Wiley 

and Sons, Inc.

Lists and illustrates certain brachiopod species that occur in Paleozoic 

rocks in Alaska.

Cooper, G. A., and others, 1942, Correlation of the Devonian sedimentary 

formations of North America: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 53, no. 12, 

p. 1729-1794, Ipl., Ifig.

Stratigraphic column for southeastern Alaska, prepared by E. Kirk. 

Discussion on page 1784mentions stringocephaius zone [see Kirk, 1927a]. 

Salmontrout limestone fauna, from Porcupine River region, given 

Onesquethaw age [roughly Onondaga age].

Gushing, H. P., 1892, Notes on the geology of the vicinity of Muir Glacier: 

Natl. Geog. Mag., v. 4, p. 56-62.

Page 59. Notes occurrence of Leperditia and gastropods in limestone 

at Glacier Bay; H. S. Williams quoted as saying that age is probably 

Paleozoic, but that the collection does not warrant making a decisive statement.

___ 1895, Notes on the area! geology of Glacier Bay, Alaska: New York 

Acad. Sci. Trans., v. 15, p. 24-34.

Pages 26 and 27. Discussion of piece of fossil coral from moraine of 

Dirt Glacier, referred by H. S. Williams to the genus Lonsdaieia , which 

indicates Carboniferous age.

Dall, W. H., 1869, Observations on the geology.of Alaska; in Coast Pilot of 

Alaska, by George Davidson: U. S. Coast Survey, Pacific Coast, pt.l, 

app. 1, p. 193-202.

Page 197. Mentions fossils obtained by F. W. Beechey from "carboniferous limestone" atCapeLisburnejsee a/soBuckland, 1839,andGrewingk, 

1850].
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Pall, W. H., 1896, Report on coal and lignite of Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

17th Ann. Kept, pt. 1, p. 763-785.

Pages S64-S65. General summary of Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous faunas [-see a/so Schuchert, 1896, and Knowlton, 1896],

*Dunbar, C. O., 1946, Para/usu/ina from the Permian of Alaska: Am. 

Mus. Novitates, no. 1325, Sept. 16, 1946, 4 p., 1 pi.

Para/usu/ina alaskensis, n. sp., described; occurs in lower 125(?) feet 

of Permian section at Halleck harbor near north end of Saginaw Bay on Kuiu 

Island; correlation made with Artinskian (Leonard) stage.

Dutro, J. T., Jr., 1951, Devonian faunas of the western Brooks Range, Alaska 

[abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 62, no. 12, p. 1434.

Upper Devonian faunas, mostly of Chemung age or younger; coralline and 

stromatoporoid assemblages of late Middle or early Late Devonian age; 

tentative correlations indicate relationships with Cordilleran and Asiatic 

Late Devonian faunas.

___ 1953, Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Noatak and associated formations, Brooks Range, Alaska [abs.]. Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 64, 

no. 12, p. 1415.

Age and correlation of Late Devonian and early Mississippian faunas in 

northern Alaska discussed.

Dutro, J. T., Jr., Bowsher, A. L., and Brosgd, W. P., 1951, Facies in 

Carboniferous rocks of northern Alaska [abs'. ]: Geol. Soc. America Bull., 

v. 62, no. 12, p. 1434-1435.

Distribution and significance of Carboniferous biofacies and lithofacies 

in northern Alaska discussed.

Eakin, H. M., 1914, The Iditarod-Ruby region, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 578, 45 p.

Page 22. Fragmentary fossils from limestone on Yuko-Solatna divide 

south of Ruby assigned Devonian age by Edwin Kirk.

1918a, Gold placer mining in the Porcupine district: U. S. Geol. Survey

Bull. 662-B, p. 93-100.

Page 96. Revised list of fossils from Porcupine Creek [see Wright, 

1904, p. 16]; fauna apparently of Spirifer arcdcus zone, which may be correlated with the Russian Artinskian [see a/so Wright, 1906, for Girty's 

reassignment].

__ 1918b; The Cosna-Nowitna region, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 667, 54 p.

Pages 25 and 26. Two collections of fossils, one Upper Ordovician and 

the other Middle Devonian, studied by Edwin Kirk; short fossil lists; correlations discussed.

___ 1919, The Porcupine geld placer district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 699, 29 p.

Page n. Fossils from Porcupine Creek [see Wright, 1904, p. 16] 

identified by G. H. Girty, who states they appear to be of Spiri/er arcn'cus 

zone, believed to correlate with Russian Artinskian (late Pennsylvanian or 

early Permian age); fauna! list includes Crinoid fragments, Productus aff.

P. mammatus, Froductus aff. P. gruenwaldt i , Spiri/er aff. S. tnarcoui 

and S. musakheylensis , and Camarophoria aff. C. margarit ovi.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 261

Eichwald, E., 1871, Geognostisch-paleontologische bemerkungen uber die 

halbinsel Mangischlak und die Aleutischen Inseln: 200 p., 20 pis, 

St. Petersburg.

Especially pages 88-98, 114-115; plate 4,'figure 9; and plate 7, figures 1

and 2. Discusses occurrence of Carboniferous plants in graywacke beds 

north of Cape Aklek [on Puale Bay] on Alaskan Peninsula [see Goeppert, 

1861]. Describes and illustrates Caiamites ambiguus and mentions presence of sigillarian fragments. Illustrates fragment of LI"chas from unknown 

locality of Silurian age. Mentions occurrence of Carboniferous corals at 

Cape Lisburne. [Hollick, 1936, confirms pre-Tertiary age of plants. ]

Emerson, B. K., 1904, General geology, notes on the stratigraphy and igneous 

rocks: Alaska, v. 4, Harriman Alaska Exped., p. 11-56.

Page 20. Refers to H. S. Williams' dating of limestone near Glacier 

Bay as Carboniferous on evidence of a single specimen of Lonsdaieia 

[see Gushing, 1895].

Emmons, S. F., 1898, Map of Alaska showing known gold-bearing rocks, with descriptive text containing sketches of the geography, geology, and gold deposits 

and routes to the gold fields: U. S. Geol. Survey Special Pub., 44p., Imap.

Page 24. Mentions that "fossils of Carboniferous age and plants of 

Devonian aspect" have been found in the "Tahkandit series."

Etheridge, R., 1878, Paleontology of the coasts of the Arctic lands visited by 

the late British expedition under Captain Sir George Nares: Geol. Soc. 

London Quart. Jour., v. 35, p. 568-639, pis. 25-29.

Pages 612-613. Cites two papers in which the faunafrom Cape Thompson 

were listed (Buckland, 1839, and Grewingk, 1850). Notes that the term 

Flustrae probably refers to Fenesteiia.

Fay, A. H., 1907, Geology and mining of the tin deposits of Cape Prince of 

Wales, Alaska: Am. Inst. Min. Eng. Bull., v. 17, p. 769-787.

Page 778. Reports three fossil localities near Cape Mountain; no age 

determination made; quotes Collier to the effect that fossils of Carboniferous age were foundinthe section there [see Brooks, 1906, p. 206, 217, 

'and 224].

*Flower, R. H., 1941a, Cephalopods from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska: 

Bull. Am. Paleontology, v. 27, no. 102, 22 p., 2 pis.

Detailed descriptions of three new Early Ordovician species collected 

from the York district by J. B. Mertie, Jr.; species described are

E//esmeroceras bridgei Flower, E//esmeroceras expansum Flower, and 

"P/ecfoceras" sewardense Flower; genUS E //esmeroceras Foerste is

revised.

1941b, Notes on structure and phylogeny of eurysiphonate cephalopods:

Paleontographica Americana, v. 3, no. 13, 56 p., 3 pis., 3 figs. 

Discusses relationship and classification of some early Paleozoic

Cephalopods. Mentions "P/ecfoceras " sewardense (p. 19) and EHesmeroceras bridgei (p. 28) fromSeward Peninsula that have been described elsewhere [Flower 1941a].

.^1946, A/asfcoceras and the Plectoceratidae: Jour. Paleontology, v. 20, 

no. 6, p. 620-624.

Discusses genus Alaskoceras [seeMHlerandKummel, 1945], its validity 

and taxonomic position. Piectoceras(?) sewardense Flower treated in detail 

[see Flower, 1941a, 1941b; Ulrich, Foerste, Miller, and Unklesbay, 1944].
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Foerste, A. F., 1924, Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec: 

Canada Geol. Survey, Mem. 138, p. 1-255, 46 pis.

Page 17. Personal communication from E. O. Ulrich states that the 

Richmond of Alaska and the Western States contains a species of 

Recep<acu7/fes very similar to R. oweni Hall. Page 21. Ulrich quoted as

Stating that Calapoecia Cf. canadensis Billings (perhaps C. huronensis

Billings), Coiumnaria caiidna (Nicholson) and c. a/veo/a<a Goldfuss are 

associated in the Richmond of northwest Alaska [Seward Peninsula; see 

Steidtmann and Cathcart, 1922].

Girty, G. H., 1905, The relations of some Carboniferous faunas: Washington 

Acad. Sci. Proc., v. 7, p. 1-26.

Page 3. Notesthat Productus giganteus has been found in Alaska. 

Pages 16-17 . Compares one occurrence of lower Carboniferous fauna in 

Alaska to the Baird shale fauna. Relates upper Carboniferous Alaskan 

faunas to the McCloud limestone fauna and the "Hueconian" fauna of transPecos Texas [now considered Permian],

___ 1909, Upper Carboniferous: Jour. Geology, v. 17, no. 4, p. 305-319.

Page 311. States that the "Hueconian" fauna is widely distributed over 

the West and ranges into Alaska. Specifically, the fauna of the Nosoni formation is apparently recognizable to the east and west [sic] of California 

and to the north into Alaska. Page 314 ".. . there is a possibility, if not 

a certain probability, that the Artinsk and Permian maybe correlated with 

the Hueco formation. "

____1927, Descriptions of Carboniferous and Triassic fossils, in' Mansfield,

G. R., Geography, geology, and mineral resources of part of southeastern 

Idaho: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 152, 453 p., 70 pis., 46 figs.

Pages 79-81. G. H. Girty compares Phosphoria faunas with those from 

Permian of southeastern Alaska, which are referred to the Artinskian; 

similar brachiopods occurring in both faunas are listed. [This is the first 

detailed record of Girty's reassignment of Alaskan faunas, previously 

called Gschelian, to the Permian. SeeEakin, 1918a and 1919; Brown, 

1924; Mertie, 1930, 1933, and 1937b. ]

Goeppert, H. R., 1861, UeberdieTertiarfloraderPolargegenden: Schlesischen 

Gesell. vaterl. Kultur., Abt. Naturwiss. u. Med., 39te Jahresber., pt. 2, 

Abh., p. 195-207.

Page 204. Cites presence of Catamites from locality north of Cape 

Aklek, Alaska Peninsula; not of Tertiary age. [Not seen by author. See 

Eichwald, 1871; HoUick, 1936. ]

Grewingk, C. I., 1850, Beitrag zur Kenntniss der orographischen und 

geognostischen Beschaffenheit der Nord-West-Kuste Amerikas, mit den 

anliegenden Inseln: Gedruckt bey K. Kray, 351 p., 4 pis., 5 maps, 

St. Petersburg.

Pages 56-90. Summarizes information from F. W. Beechey's voyage 

[seeBuckland, 1839] and lists fossils collected at Cape Lisburne by Fisher 

and Kupreanof. Appendix i, pages 270 and 271. Lists and discusses 

Carboniferous fossils from Cape Thompson and Cape Lisburne; corals collected by Fisher and Kupreanof have a Silurian aspect, although Grewingk 

follows Buckland's age assignment. [Apparently the same work was 

published earlier in Verhandlungun der mineralogischen gesellschaft zu 

St. Petersburg, 1848-49, p. 76-424. ]
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 263

t Gryc, G., 1951, Paleontology, in Payne, T. G., and others, Geology of the 

Arctic slope of Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Oil and Gas Investigations 

Map OM 126, 3 sheets.

Sheet 3. Brief discussion of faunas and ages of Devonian, Mississippian, 

and Permian formations in northern Alaska. Sheet i. Some typical fossils mentioned in explanation of columnar section.

*Harker, P., and McLaren, D. J., 1950, Sdophyiium, a new rugose coral 

from the Canadian Arctic: Canada Dept. Mines and Tech. Surveys, Geol. 

Survey Bull. 15, p. 29-34, 1 pi.

Describes new genus and new species of lithostrotionid coral from 

limestone of Mississippian age on Canada-Alaska boundary at latitude 

68 0 48'40" N.; affinities of the new genus discussed. [This locality is in a 

belt now mapped as Lisburne group (Mississippian). ]

*Hayasaka, I., 1936, On some North American species of Lithostrotioneiia: 

Taihoku Imp. Univ. Mem., v. 13, no. 5, Geology no. 12, p. 47-73, 

pis. 11-17.

Describes 10 new species of North American Lithostrotioneiia; L. 

amerfcana listed as from 141st meridian near headwaters of Incog Creek; 

L. fioriformis type specimens from west end of southern shore of Madre 

de Dios Island, southeastern Alaska; L. vesicuiaris type specimen from 

Soda Bay, southeastern Alaska; and other specimens from PorcupineArctic section [see Harker and Maclaren, 1950; both L. americana and 

L. vesicuiaris are from areas in northern Alaska in which the Mississippian 

Lisburne group probably crops out].

Hill, D., 1948, The distribution and sequence of Carboniferous coral faunas: 

Geol. Mag., v. 85, no. 3, p. 121-148.

Page 144. Notes that Lithostrotioneiia occurs in Alaskan Carboniferous 

rocks [see Hayasaka, 1936]. Figure 3. Indicates that compound rugose 

corals lived in Cape Lisburne region in northwestern Alaska during 

Visean time.

Hollick, A., 1936, The Tertiary floras of Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. 

Paper 182, 185 p., 122 pis.

Pages i and 2. Historical review of paleobotanical references on Alaska. 

Discredits Grewingk's report of Carboniferous plants from Unga Island 

[see Grewingk, 1850, and Knowlton, 1894]. Confirms Eichwald's identification of Catamites, collected near Cape Aklek [see Eichwald, 1871, and 

Goeppert, 1861].

Hooper, C. L., 1881, Report of the cruise of the U. S. Revenue Steamer 

Corwin in the Arctic Ocean: U. S. Treasury Dept. Doc. 118, 71 p., pis., 

map.

Page 48. Mentions abundance of fossil shells, including "terebratulae" 

and "trilobites" in the geologic formation at Cape Thompson; no details 

given.

Howell, B. F., and others, 1944, Correlation of the Cambrian formations of 

North America: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 55, no. 8, p; 993-1003, 

Ipl.

Stratigraphic column for Eagle district, Yukon River valley, prepared 

by C. E. Resser, indicates presence of the Caivineiia zone of Trempeleau 

age and the Sriscoia zone of Franconiaage in rocks of Late Cambrian age.
264 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Hume, G. S., 1925, The Paleozoic outlier of Lake Timiskaming, Ontario 

and Quebec: Canada Dept. Mines, Geol. Survey Mem. 145, 129 p., 16 pis., 

7 figs.

Page 27, Refers to fossils of Trenton age (Middle Ordovician) from Port 

Clarence limestone on Don River, Seward Peninsula [see Kindle, 1911, 

p. 344].

Isbister, A. K., 1855, On the geology of the Hudson's Bay territories, and of 

portions of the Arctic and northwestern regions of America: Geol. Soc. 

London Quart. Jour., v. 11, p. 497-520, map; without map, Am. Jour. 

Sci., ser. 2, v. 21, p. 313-338, 1856.

Page 519. Summarizes information on Carboniferous fossils from northwestern Alaska [see-Buckland, 1839, and Grewingk, 1850]. Mentions occurrence of Carboniferous plants in southern Alaska [probably not Carboniferous; see Knowlton, 1894]; presence of Silurian rocks in neighborhood 

of Sitka indicated by occurrence of Catenipora escharoides as a rolled 

fragment.

Kindle, E. M., 1907, Notes on the Paleozoic faunas and stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska: Jour. Geology, v. 15, no. 4, p. 314-337, illus.

Extensive remarks on the stratigraphic succession; and discussion, with 

lists, of the invertebrate faunas (largely Brachiopoda) found along the coast 

and in the Alexander Archipelago. Silurian; Lower, Middle, and Upper 

Devonian; Mississippian; and upper Carboniferous (Gschel-stufe equivalent) faunas listed [these upper Carboniferous faunas now considered 

probable Permian; see Buddington and Chapin, 1929].

1908a, Geologic reconnaissance of the Porcupine valley, Alaska: Geol.

Soc. America Bull., v. 19, p. 315-338.

Description of the structure and stratigraphy based on a field study in 

1906 of the vaUey of this tributary of the Yukon (at about lat, 66°35' N., 

long, 145° 28'W.). Faunas listed and discussed: Ordovician, Middle 

Silurian, Middle or Upper Silurian graptolite fauna, Middle Devonian 

(Salmontrout limestone), Mississippian, and upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian?).

1908b, Occurrence of the Silurian fauna in western America: Am. Jour. 

Sci., ser. 4, v. 25, no. 146, p. 125-129.

Includes lists of invertebrate fossils from the lower ramparts of the 

Porcupine River, and from Kuiu Island, southeastern Alaska; fauna closely

allied to the Niagara fauna of the Eastern United States,

___ 1909, The section at Cape Thompson, Alaska: Am. Jour. Sci., ser. 4, 

v. 28, no. 168, p. 520-528.

/-ages 523-527. Description of formations, lists of Mississippian fossil 

plants and invertebrates, and discussion of ages of beds.

... 1911, The faunal succession in the Port Clarence limestone, Alaska: 

Am. Jour. Sci., ser. 4, v. 32, no. 191, p. 335-349.

Gives order of succession and correlation of the several faunas known 

to occur in the formation (ranging in age from Cambrian to Devonian or 

Carboniferous) on Seward Peninsula; includes preliminary lists of invertebrate species represented. [Much of this paper has been superseded by 

later work; see Steidtmann and Cathcart, 1922. ]

1919, The discovery of a Portage fauna in the Mackenzie River.valley:

Canada Geol. Survey Mus. Bull. 29, 8 p., 2 pis.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 265

Page 4. Indicates that Portage fauna is probably widely distributed to 

west of Mackenzie River. Buchioia retriostriata von Buch collected by 

Kindle on Yukon River below Eagle [ see Brooks and Kindle, 1908, p. 288]. 

Burling also collected a Portage fauna on the Canadian-Alaskan boundary 

north of the Yukon [ see Kindle and Burling, 1914, p. 317].

Kindle, E. M., and Burling, L. D., 1914, Report of the invertebrate paleontologist: Canada Geol. Survey, Summary Rept. for 1913, p. 300-321.

Pages 308-314 and 316-321 . Preliminary reports on fossils collected 

by D. D. Cairnes party along Canadian-Alaskan boundary in 1912-13; all 

Paleozoic systems from Cambrian to Carboniferous represented; Ordovician 

faunas compared to those obtained from Port Clarence limestone; Silurian 

faunas similar to those collected along Porcupine River [see Kindle, 1908a 

and 1911]; 'Devonian fauna like that of Salmontrout limestone; a "Portage 

fauna" from overlying shales.

King, R. E., 1930, The geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas; pt. 2, fauna! 

summary and correlation of the Permian formations, with description of 

Brachiopods: Texas Univ. Bull. 3042, 245 p., 44 pis., 5 figs.

Page 33. Discusses Permian f aunas of Alaska; points out their similarity 

to the Phosphoria fauna and their relationship to the Schwagerina zone and 

the Russian Artinskian stage. [Good general discussion of Arctic Permian 

faunas. ]

Kirk, E., 1918a, An Ordovician fauna from southeastern Alaska [abs. ]: 

Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 29, no. 1, p. 143-144.

Discusses occurrence of Lower Ordovician graptolite fauna in Wrangell 

series at Wrangell; Tetragraptus and Phyilograptus ? listed.

___ 1918b, Paleozoic glaciation in southeastern Alaska: Am. Jour. Sci. 

ser. 4, v. 46, no. 273, p. 511-515.

Mentions faunas of two Silurian limestone beds on north side of Heceta 

Island. Upper limestone contains rich Conchidium fauna [see Kirk and 

Amsden, 1952]. Lower limestone contains pentameroids, corals, and 

gastropods. Both limestone beds called late Niagara in age. Refers to 

Sfn'ngocepha/us-bearing limestone zone of Middle Devonian on west coast 

of Prince of Wales Island.

k _____ 1922, Brooksina, a new pentameroid genus from the Upper Silurian of 

southeastern Alaska: U.'S. Natl. Mus. Proc., 1922, v. 60, art. 19, 8 p., 

Ipl.

Full description of a new genus and type species of fossil brachiopod, 

and discussion of its fauna! affinities and the zone in which abundant specimens were found (on Kosciusko and Heceta Islands).

«___ 1926, Harpidium, anewpentameroidbrachiopodgenus from southeastern 

Alaska: U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc., 1925, v. 66, art. 32, 7 p., 2 pis.

Descriptions of three species of this new brachiopod found in the limestone series on Heceta and Kosciusko Islands. Limestone series characterized by another new brachiopod described by Kirk (1922).

___ 1927a, New American occurrences of stringocephaius: Am. Jour. Sci., 

ser. 5, y. 13, no. 75, p. 219-222.

Reports finding stringocephaius at two localities in southeastern Alaska 

in 1917, both near KLawak on west coast of Prince of Wales Island; zone 

considered to lie near top of Middle Devonian.

:___1927b, Cymbidium, a new genus of Silurian pentameroid brachiopods 

from Alaska: U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc., 1927, v. 69, art. 23, 5 p., 1 pi.
266 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Discussion of the faunal sequence in southeastern Alaska, including a 

description of the new genus represented by two species collected by the 

author on Kosciusko Island.

*Kirk, E., 1927c, Pycnodesma, B. new molluscan genus from the Silurian of 

Alaska: U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc., v. 71, art. 20, 9 p., 2 pis.

Descriptions Of Pycnodesma giganteum and P. benjamini, n. gen. and

n. spp., from the "uppermost stratigraphic unit of the Silurian in Southeast 

Alaska"; rocks of this age occur also onSeward Peninsula and "probably in 

the Upper Yukon Valley in the Fairbanks region. "

1928, Bathmopterus , a new fossil gastropod genus from the Silurian

of Alaska: U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc., v. 74, art. 18, 4 p., 1 pi.

Description of a new species based on specimens from Willoughby Island, 

Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska [Shimer and Shrock, 1944, show this 

genus as = Euomphaiopterus Roemer 1876; see a/so Knight, 1938J.

___ 1929, Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian of Alaska [abs. J: Geol. Soc. 

America Bull., v. 40, no. 1, p. 227-229.

Brief discussion and correlation of stratigraphic units represented on 

Seward Peninsula, in the Yukon-Porcupine area, and in southeastern Alaska. 

Discussion of Paleozoic geography of the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

*___1937a, ciistocrinus, a new Carboniferous crinoid genus: Wash. Acad. 

Sci. Jour., v. 27, no. 3, p. 105-111, 8 figs.

Describes new genus and species, ciistocrinus pyriformts fromCarboniferous strata enlarge island at head of Saginaw Bay on Kuiu Island, southeastern Alaska. E. Kirk, G. H. Girty, and L. G. Henbest believe the fauna 

is of early Pennsylvanian age.

___1937b, cuthrocrinus, new name for ciistocrinus Kirk: Wash. Acad. 

Sci. Jour., v. 27, no. 9, p. 373-374.

Proposes new generic name because of possibility that original name 

[Kirk, 1937a] is a homonym of cieistocrinus Springer.

*Kirk, E., and Amsden, T. W., 1952, Upper Silurian brachiopods from outhe as tern Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 233-C, p. 53-66, 4 pis., 

6 figs.

Describes part of Upper Silurian brachiopod fauna from southeastern 

Alaska. Twenty-one species considered, of which 6 are new, 6 were described in earlier publications by Kirk, 3 are referred to previously known 

species, and 6 are incompletely known. New genus Aiaskospira described; 

attention called to the resemblances between this fauna and one that occurs 

in the Upper Silurian of the eastern Urals.

*Knight, J. B., 1941, Paleozoic gastropod genotypes: Geol. Soc. America 

Special Paper 32, 510 p., 96 pis., 32 figs.

Pages 49-51 and plate 78, figure 2. Discussion of Kirk's genus 

Bathmoptetus [see Kirk, 1928]; the Alaskan form closely resembles 

Euomphaiopterus Roemer [see Shimer and Schrock, 1944, in which 

Bathmopterus is listed as a synonym].

Khopf, Adolph, 1908, Geology of the Seward Peninsula tin deposits, Alaska: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 358, 71 p.

Page 13. Reports identification by E. M. Kindle of fossils collected at 

head of Cassiterite Creek. These fossils apparently included specimens of
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 267

Raphistoma and Liospira, indicating an Ordovician age for the Port 

Clarence limestone.

Knopf, Adolph, 1909, Some features of the Alaskan tin deposits: Econ. Geology, 

v. 4, no. 3, p. 214-223.

Page 216, Refers to fossiliferous Mississippian rocks in vicinity of Cape 

Mountain, Seward Peninsula [see Collier, 1908].

___ 1912a, The Eagle River region, southeastern Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 502, 61 p.

Pages 17-18'. Discusses relationship of rocks in northern part of Juneau 

gold belt to fossiliferous Carboniferous rocks at Taku Harbor [see Wright 

andWright, 1908, p. 55].

___ 1912b, The Sitka mining district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 504, 

32 p.

Pages 11-1 2. Summarizes data on Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous 

rocks on Freshwater Bay, Chichagof Island [see Kindle, 1907].

Knowlton, F. H., 1894, Fossil flora of Alaska: Geol. Soc. America Bull., 

v. 5, p. 573-590.

Page 573. In a review of previous work, Dr. Knowlton expresses doubt 

that Carboniferous plants occur at Unga, south-central Alaska [the plants 

were reported by Grewingk, 1850, and by Isbister, 1855].

___ 1896, Report on the fossil plants collected in Alaska in 1895 as well as 

an enumeration of those previously known from the same region, with a 

table showing their relative distribution: U. S. Geol. Survey 17th Ann. Rept, 

pt. 1, app. 1, p. 876-897.

Page «7& Discusses fragment of Catamites collected near Cape Aklek 

[seeGeoppert, 1861; Eichwald, 1871; and Hollick, 1936].

*Kobayashi, T., 1935, The Briscoia faunaof the late Upper Cambrian in Alaska, 

with descriptions of a few Upper Cambrian trilobites from Montana and 

Nevada: Japanese Jour. Geology and Geography, v. 12, nos.'3-4, p. 39-57,

3 pis.

Describes 2 new brachiopod species, 2 new genera, and 16 new species 

of trilobites [fauna that author considered of Trempeleau age now thought 

to be of high Franconia age]. Compares Alaskan fauna with that in Upper 

Lingula flags, England, and in Fengshanian, East Asia.

*___ 1936a, Cambrian and Lower Ordovician trilobites from northwestern 

Canada: Jour. Paleontology, v. 10, no. 3, p. 157-167, 1 pi.

Discusses and correlates Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician trilobite 

faunas of Yukon-Alaska boundary area; describes 2 new genera and 8 new 

species; Upper Cambrian Briscoia fauna succeeded by Lower Ordovician

Symphysurina fauna.

___ 1936b, Three contributions to the Cambro - Ordovician faunas: 

Japanese Jour. Geology and Geography, v. 13, no. 1-2, p. 163-184, 2 pis.,

4 figs.

Page 169 and figure 1 . DiSCUSSBS occurrence Of Briscoia and Hungaia

in the Alaska-Canada boundary area; figure shows presence of Briscoia, 

Parabriscoia, and Hungaia in the Upper Yukon -International Boundary 

region [see Kobayashi, 1935, and Mertie, 1933].

1 Lefflngwell, E. deK., 1919, The Canning River region, northern Alaska: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 109, 251 p.
268 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Pages 106-115. Discusses ages and correlations of Carboniferous rocks 

and presents extensive lists of fossils from Lisburne limestone (Mississippian) and Sadlerochit sandstone (Permsylvanian). Faunas studied by G. H. 

Girty, whose reports are quoted at length [Sadlerochit fauna was later considered by Girty to be of Permian age; see Mertie, 1930, and P. S. Smith, 

1939].

Maddren, A. G., 1912, Geologic investigations along the Canada-Alaska boundary: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 520-K, p. 297-314.

Page 310. Rocks west of upper Old Crow River (on Yankee Ridge and 

Horse Hill), mainly limestones and limy shales, contain fossil corals and 

brachiopods of Carboniferous age. [These fossils, and others collected in 

1912, were studied by G. H. Girty, who reported presence of both 

Mississippian and Permian faunas (this fauna! information has not been 

published); see Harker and McLaren, 1950, for description of coral from 

this belt of Mississippian rocks; Hayasaka, 1936, lists corals collected in 

this area. ]

Martin, G. C., 1922, Gold lodes in the upper Kuskokwim region: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 722-E, p. 149-161.

Pages 156-157 . Age of limestones in upper Kuskokwim region, believed 

to be equivalent to "Takotna series", is considered probably Middle 

Devonian or possibly Ordovician. [ See Brown, 1924, for more detail on 

this region. ]

1926, The Mesozoic stratigraphy of Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey

Bull. 776, 493 p.

Page 5. Summarizes character of pre-Triassic basement as follows: 

"The youngest rocks of known age that underlie the Triassicbeds of Alaska 

are early Permian(?) limestones. These limestones carry a fauna closely 

related to that of the Artinskian of Russia, which is regarded by some as 

pre-Permian but which is more generally considered as the lowest division 

of the Permian. These limestones are very widely distributed in Alaska, 

occurring in nearly all the larger geographic regions, and show that toward 

the end of the Paleozoic era (at about the beginning of Permian time) limestone-forming seas extended over the larger part if not all of the area that 

is now Alaska. Marine Permian deposits younger than the Artinskian are 

not known and probably are not present in Alaska. " Other data on preMesozoic rocks, most of which summarize earlier work, are found on 

pages 67, 68, 73-78, 81-83, 89, 92-94, 96, 101, 103, 106-111, 113-117, 

128-129, 257, 260-262, 376-377, 383-386, 391-393, 395, 448-449, 452, 

and 455-456.

*Meek, F. B., 1867, Remarks on the geology of the valley of Mackenzie River, 

with figures and descriptions of fossils from that region, in the museum of 

the Smithsonian Institution, chiefly collected by the late Robert Kennicott, 

Esq.: Chicago Acad. Sci. Trans., v. 1, p. 61-114, 5 pis.

Describes Devonian fossils from Porcupine River valley and other fossils;

AlaSkan Species include Cyathophyllum arcticum, Zaphrentis recta, 

Zaphrentis mcfarlanei, Paleocyclus kirbyi, Favosites polymorpha GoldfuSS, Atrypa aspera Schlotheim, and Cyrtina hamiltonensis Hall; the four

coral species are new.

MendenhaLL, W. C., 1902, Reconnaissance from Port Hamlin to KotzebUQ 

Sound, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 10, 68 p.

Page 32 Mentions earlier collection of Silurian and Devonian fossils on 

Seward Peninsula [see Brooks and others, 1901, and Collier, 1902].
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 269

'Mendenhall, W. C., 1905, Geology of the central Copper River region, Alaska: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 41, 133 p.

Pages 40-46. Report by Charles Schuchert on eight collections from the 

Mankomen formation establishes Permian age of the predominantly brachio - 

pod faunas; fossil lists. Discussion of correlation of Mankomen formation 

with other Permian rocks in Alaska and elsewhere in the world.

Mendenhall, W. C., and Schrader, F. C., 1903, The mineral resources of 

the Mount Wrangell district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 15, 

71 p.

Pages 14-15. Nikolai greenstone and Chitistone limestone provisionally 

assigned Permian age [the limestone now considered Triassic; see P. S. 

Smith, 1939, and Moffit, 1938]. No fauna! lists.

Mertie, J. B., Jr., 1918, The gold placers of the Tolovana district: U. S. 

Geol. Survey Bull. 662-D, p. 221-277.

Page 238. Edwin Kirk reports on Middle Devonian fossil collection obtained about 1^ miles south of Livengood.

___ 1923, Geology and gold placers of the Chandalar district, Alaska: U. S. 

Geol. Survey Bull. 773-E, p. 215-263.

Pages 228, 232,235, and 237-238. Fossils from early Paleozoic schist 

and limestone assigned Silurian age by Edwin Kirk; ciorinda? sp. and 

Conchidium sp. listed. Middle Devonian fauna from slate sequence also 

reported on by Kirk; fossil list. Discusses rocks of Devonian or 

Mississippian age; fossil lists by G. H. Girty.

__1926, The Paleozoic geology of interior Alaska [abs. ]: Wash. Acad. 

Sci. Jour., v. 16, no. 3, p. 78-79.

Summarizes knowledge of Paleozoic rocks of central and northern Alaska 

and makes general references to the more fossiliferous zones [ for more 

detail see Mertie, 1930, 1933, 1937b; and Smith and Mertie, 1930].

1927, The Chandalar-Sheenjek district: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 810-B, 

~ 87-139.

Pages usandi27 Report on collection containing Conchidium, identified 

by Edwin Kirk, is reprinted [see Mertie, 1923]. Three small collections 

from the Lisburne limestone in the upper Sheenjek valley assigned a probable 

Mississippian age by G. H. Girty.

__ 1930, Geology of the Eagle-Circle district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 816, 168 p.

Pages 43-130. Extensive report on faunas and ages of Paleozoic rocks 

of Eagle-Circle district; reevaluation of collections made by the International Boundary Survey party of the Canadian Geological Survey [see Cairnes, 

1914b]. Middle and Upper Cambrian faunas reported by C. E. Resser and 

Edwin Kirk. Tabulation of fossils from Silurian and Devonian rocks; fossils 

identified by Kirk. Complete list of Mississippian faunas from Calico Bluff 

formation, compiled mainly from reports by G. H. Girty. Discussion of 

age of Nation River formation and its flora. Tabulation of lower Permian 

(Artinskian) Tahkandit fauna, as determined by Girty, and correlation of 

Tahkandit formation with other Permian rocks in Alaska.

_ 1931, A geologic reconnaissance of the Dennison Fork district, Alaska: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 827, 44 p.
270 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Page 26'. Wellesley formation assigned Carboniferous age; based on a 

revaluation of a single collection by A. H. Brooks [Brooks, 1900a, p. 472].

Gertie, J. B., Jr., 1933, The Tatonduk-Nation district: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 836-E, p. 347-443.

Pages 369-432. Detailed discussion of age and correlation of late preCambrian and Paleozoic rocks; data additional to those given by Mertie 

(1930). Extensive lists of Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, 

Mississippian, and Permian faunas. Especially important new collections 

from Cambrian, Ordovician, Mississippian (Calico Bluff formation), and 

Permian (Tahkandit limestone) are discussed.

___ 1937a, The Kaiyuh Hills: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 868-D, p. 145- 

178.

Page 160. Devonian limestone dated on basis of one small collection of 

fossils [see Eakin, 1914, p. 22]; Kirk's identifications reprinted.

f ___ 1937b, The Yukon-Tanana region, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 872, 

276 p.

Pages- 73-153. Compiles all previous and many new data on stratigraphy 

and paleontology of Paleozoic rocks in central Alaska. The report on faunas 

is most recent comprehensive one and represents efforts of several 

paleontologists. Faunas listed range from Middle Cambrian through 

Permian. Cambrian fossils identified by G. A. Cooper, Edwin Kirk, 

C. E. Resser, L. D. Burling, and T. Kobayashi. Ordovician, Silurian, 

and Devonian forms studied by Kirk; three Middle Devonian fossil horizons 

recognized by Kirk. Carboniferous and Permian faunas studied by 

G. H. Girty. Lists of fossils from the Calico Bluff and Tahkandit formations are essentially the same as those published in Mertie (1930).

___ 1938, The Nushagak district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 903, 96 p.

Pages 43-44. Two collections of fossils from Permian limestone reported by G. H. Girty; fossil lists.

Mertie, J. B., Jr., and Harrington, G. L., 1924, The Ruby-Kuskokwim 

region, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 754, 129 p.

Pages 20 and 21. Earlier reports datingMiddle(?) Devonian limestone 

in Ruby-Kuskokwim region reproduced.

*Millar, A. K., and Kummel, B., 1945, A new genus of early Paleozoic 

cephalopods from Alaska: Jour. Paleontology, v. 19, no. 3, p. 126-128, 

Ipl.

Description of type specimens of Aiaskoceras from the York district, 

Seward Peninsula [ s e e Flower, 1941a, 1946],

Miller, A. K., Youngquist, W., and Collinson, C., 1954, Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island: Geol. Soc. America Mem. 62, 234 p., 63 pis., 

20 figs.

Pages 39-40. Summary of early Upper Ordovician fauna! lists previously 

reported from Alaska [see Cairnes, 1914b; Kindle, 1908a; Prindle, 1913a; 

Eakin, 1918b; Steidtmann and Cathcart, 1922].

Moffit, F. H., 1912, Headwater regions of Gulkana and SusitnaRivers, Alaska: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 498, 82 p.

Pages 23 and 28. Dating of Mankomen fauna as Pennsylvania!! based on 

reassignment by G. H. Girty [now considered Permian; see Moffit, 1938b].
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 271

Moffit, F. H., 1914, Geology of the Hanagita-Bremner region, Alaska: U.S. 

Geol. Survey Bull. 576, 56 p.

Page 20. G. H. Girty indicates age of interstratified schist, slate, and 

limestone beds as probably Carboniferous; poor preservation of fossils 

makes age assignment provisional.

___ 1915, The Broad Pass region, Alaska, with sections on Quaternary deposits, igneous rocks, and glaciation, by J. E. Pogue: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 608, 80 p.

Page 25. Edwin Kirk assiqns Devonian age to fossils from limestone

On Jack River; Martinia Cf. M. maia (Billings), Tentaculites Sp. , Proetus

sp. (same as that referred by Kindle to P. haidemani Hall), and several 

coralline and molluscan genera listed [see Mertie, 1937b, for revision of 

Middle Devonian horizons by Kirk].

___ 1918, The upper Chitina valley, Alaska, with a description of theiigneous 

rocks by R. M. Overbeck: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 675, 82 p.

Pages 21-22. Report by G. H. Girty that fossil collections probablyare 

Mississippian in age, although younger age not discounted; fauna! lists.

___ 1928, Notes on the geology of upper Nizina River: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 813-D, p. 143-166.

Page 152. Says fossils were found that give definite evidence of Permian 

age for sequence of predominantly volcanic rocks in the Nizina district 

[no fossil lists],

___ 1929, The Slana district, upper Copper River region: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 824-B, p. 111-124.

Page 117. Fossils collected on Indian Creek show that the limestone is 

late Carboniferous (Permian) age and is to be correlated with the Mankomen 

formation of Mendenhall and with the Permian limestone at the heads of the 

White and Nizina Rivers [no fossils lists].

___ 1933, The Suslota Pass district, upper Copper River region, Alaska: 

U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 844-C, p. 137-162.

Page 147. Lists Permian faunas from rocks on Platinum and Suslositna 

Creeks; fossils examined by G. H. Girty and Charles Schuchert. [Collection 1520 lists Schwagerina Sp. ]

f ___ 1938a, Geology of the Chitina valley and adjacent area, Alaska: U. S. 

Geol. Survey Bull. 894, 137 p.

Pages 27-37. Fossil lists for Mississippian and Permian formations 

compiled from reports by G. H. Girty; collections from the Strelna formation and associated rocks regarded as late Mississippian in age; abundantly 

fossiliferous rocks from the upper Nizina and White River areas referred 

to a Permian age.

___1938b, Geology of the Slana-Tok district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 904, 54 p.

Pages 18-30. Faunas from Middle Devonian limestone, identified by 

Edwin Kirk, mainly coralline. Permian Mankomen formation and correlative rocks, richly fossiliferous; fossil lists compiled from reports by 

G. H. Girty and Charles Schuchert.

1941, Geology of the upper Tetling River district, Alaska: U. S. Geol.

Survey Bull. 917-B, p. 115-157.
272 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Age of fossiliferous Devonian rocks ranges from Middle to Upper 

Devonian. [ No new fossil data. ] Reference made to previous publications 

dealing with Permian faunas.

Moffit, F. H., 1943, Geology of the Nutzotin Mountains, Alaska, with a section on the igneous rocks, by R. G. Wayland: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 

933-B, p. 103-199.

Pages 120-121. Reference to collections of Permian fossils made in 

1940; fossil lists to appear in future paper.

1 Moffit, F. H., and Knopf, Adolph, 1910, Mineral resources of theNabesnaWhite River district, Alaska, with a section on the Quaternary, by 

S. R. Capps: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 417, 64 p.

Pages ,20-24. Quotes extensive report,by G. H. Girty, which contains 

many fossil lists for collections from Carboniferous limestone and shale; 

Girty correlated the fossils most closely with the Russian Gschelian fauna 

[he later called this fauna Permian; see Moffit, 1938a].

Moffit, F. H., and Mertie, J. B., Jr., 1923, The Kotsina-Kuskulana district, 

Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 745, 149 p.

Pages 27-2.S. Fossils from Strelna formation assigned lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) age by G. H. Girty; fauna! lists. Chart shows 

tentative correlations of Carboniferous rocks in Alaska.

Moore, R. C., and Laudon, L. R., 1943, Evolution and classification of 

Paleozoic crinoids: Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 46, 153p., 14pls., 

18 figs., table.

Pages so and 108. Clithrocrinns Kirk [see Kirk, 1937] listed under 

Family Codiacrinidae Bather.

Moore, R. C., and others, 1944, Correlation of Pennsylvanian formations of 

North America: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 55, no. 6, p. 657-706, Ipl.

Chart, page 704. Age of supposed Pennsylvanian rocks in Alaska uncertain; Nation River formation, largely nonmarine, and the "limestones 

of Soda Bay", in southeastern Alaska, possibly of Pennsylvanian age. 

J. Steele Williams prepared the Alaskan portion of this chart.

Prindle, L. M., 1908, The Fairbanks and Rampart quadrangles, YukonTanana region, Alaska, with a section on the Rampart placers, by F. L. 

Hess, and a paper on the water supply of the Fairbanks region, by C. C. 

Covert: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 337, 102 p.

Pages 18-23 . Repeats data from Prindle and Hess (1906) andadds report 

by E. M. Kindle on material collected in 1907; one collection called "late 

Silurian" on basis of presence of Mega/omus? and another collection referred to "late Devonian". [No new data on Carboniferous fossils. ]

___ 1909, The Fortymile quadrangle, Yukon-Tanana region, Alaska: U. S. 

Geol. Survey Bull. 375, 52 p.

Pages 20-22. Quotes extensively from Brooks and Kindle (1908) on 

faunas and age of the Calico Bluff and Nation River formations. G. H. 

Girty related the Calico Bluff fauna to the Produces giganteus zone in 

Russia, which perhaps is correlative to the faunas of the Moorefield formation and "White Pine shale" in the United States. David White regarded 

plant fossils from the Nation River formation as basal Carboniferous or 

Late Devonian in age.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 273

Prindle, L. M., 1913a, A geologic reconnaissance of the Fairbanks quadrangle, 

Alaska, with a detailed description of the Fairbanks district, by L. M. 

Prindle and F. J. Katz, and an account of lode mining near Fairbanks, by 

P. S. Smith: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 525, 220 p.

Pages 3S..39, and 42-47 . Age of Tatalina group given as Upper Ordovician; 

fauna! list. Probable Middle Silurian and Silurian or Devonian fossils also 

collected from rocks assigned to this group. Undifferentiated Paleozoic 

limestones include rocks of Late Ordovician, Middle Silurian, andMiddle(?) 

Devonian age; fauna! lists. Rocks correlated with Tonzona group provisionally assigned a Devonian age. Carboniferous fauna! lists of Prindle 

(1908) repeated [see also Mertie, 1937b, for latest summary].

1913b, A geologic reconnaissance of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska:

U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 538, 82 p.

Pages 27-30. Extensive quotations from Brooks and Kindle (1908) on 

Middle Devonian and upper Carboniferous [now considered Permian] 

faunas from outcrops along Yukon River in Circle quadrangle; fossil lists 

provided by Kindle and G. H. Girty reproduced; additional faunas collected 

from the younger beds, which Girty believes are "upper" Carboniferous 

rather than Permian [see Mertie, 1937b, for latest summary].

Prindle, L. M., and Hess, F. L., 1905, Rampart placer region: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 259, p. 104-119.

Page no. Reports occurrence of Devonian corals in limestones associated with tuffs and diabasic rocks [see Prindle and Hess, 1906; and 

Mertie, 1937b].

1906, The Rampart gold placer region, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey

Bull. 280, 54 p.

Pages J9-22. Quotes E. M. Kindle on his determinations of middle 

Paleozoic fossils from White Mountains and Rampart region; 1 collection, 

probably of Silurian age, contains Cytheieiia sp., ciadopora sp., and 

Ptiiodictya? cf. p. itondoaa; 3 collections, probably Early Devonian, contain a Gypiduia of the paeudo-gaieatus type; 4 collections, referred to the

Middle Devonian, Contain Favosifes near epidermatus, Favosites winchelli,

ciadopora? sp., and Favoaites near limitaris; 2 collections, referred to

as probably Devonian, Contain Michelinia, Zaphrentis, and Stromatopora.

Quotes G. H. Girty regarding 3 Carboniferous collections, 1 of which' is 

tentatively referred to a Pennsylvanian, perhaps "Permo-Carboniferous,"age on the basis Of the presence Of Hustedia Cf. H. compressa

Meekandfistuliporoidbryozoans. [SeeMertie, 1937b, for latest summary.]

Reid, H. F., 1896, Glacier Bay and its glaciers: U. S. Geol. Survey 16th 

Ann. Rept., pt. 1, p. 415-461.

Pages 433-434. Fossils attributed to Carboniferous age reported [see 

Gushing, 1895].

Ross, C. P., 1933, Mineral deposits near the West Fork of the Chulitna River, 

Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 849-E, p. 289-333.

Page 29«. Report on a single collection of fossils, determined byG. H. 

Girty as probably Permian in age; fossil list.

*Ruedemann, R., 1947, Graptolites of North America: Geol. Soc. America 

Mem. 19, 652 p., 92 pis.

Especially pages 95, 112-113, 116, and 130. Detailed dlSCUSSiOn Of

Ordovician and Silurian graptolite faunas of Alaska, their correlation and
274 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

age significance. Three new species and one new variety described from 

Alaskan material; data given regarding other specimens referred to existing

Species, including Dictyonema alaskenseTi. Sp. , Petalograptus posterns n. 

Sp. , Cryptograptus t tic orn is Var. schaferi LapWOrth, Monograptus chimaera 

Var. alaskaensis n. Var. , M. priodon (Bronn), M. Cf. raitzhainiensis

(Eisel), M. n. sp. aff. unduiatus EU.es and Wood, M. varians Wood, and 

Cyrtograptus kindlei n. sp. [Many of these fossil lists replace those given 

in such earlier publications as Kindle, 1908a; Buddington and Chapin, 1929; 

and Mertie, 1933. ]

Schrader, F. C., 1900, Preliminary report on a reconnaissance along the 

Chandalar and Koyukuk Rivers, Alaska, in 1899: U. S. Geol. Survey 

21st Ann. Kept., pt. 11, p. 441-486.

Paje 476. West Fork series reportedly contains fossils that G. H. Girty 

identified as "certainly Paleozoic and probably Devonian"; fossil list to be 

published in later report [s ee Schrader, 1904].

1902, Geological section of the Rocky Mountains in northern Alaska:

Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 13, p. 233-252,. pis. 40-43.

Pages' 238-244. Age of Paleozoic rocks based on study of fossil material 

by Charles Schuchert; fossil lists identical to those given in Schrader 

(1904) for Lisburne formation and "Fickett series" [see Smith and Mertie, 

1930].

f ___ 1904, A reconnaissance in northern Alaska across the Rocky Mountains, 

along Koyukuk, John, Anaktuvuk, and Colville Rivers, and the Arctic 

coast to Cape Lisburne, in 1901, with notes by W. J. Peters: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Prof. Paper 20, 139 p.

Pages 57, 64-66, and 70-71. One fossil collection fromSkaj it limestone, 

studied by Charles Schuchert, contains brachiopod like Meristina and 

Meristeiia; the brachiopod also resembles a transverse Seminu/a. "This 

kind of shell indicates that the rock cannot be older than Upper Silurian 

and not younger than Lower Carboniferous"; author provisionally dates 

formation as Upper Silurian on stratigraphic evidence. Several collections 

from the Lisburne formation identified by Schuchert, who assigned them a 

Middle Devonian age; six small collections from gravels of the Chandler 

River, studied by G. H. Girty, called probably Devonian; the fossils collected by Schrader are compared with a coral fauna from near Cape 

Lisburne, which Schuchert also dates as Middle Devonian [see Collier, 

1906, for correct age assignment of Lisburne coral faunas], A large 

number of collections from gravels are dated as lower Carboniferous by 

Schuchert [they supposedly came from Schrader's Fickett series, no longer 

recognized as a mappable unit],

*Schuchert, Charles, 1896, Report on Paleozoic fossils from Alaska: U. S. 

Geol. Survey 17th Ann. Rept., pt. 1, app. 2, p. 864-865, 898-906.

General notes on Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous faunas; summary 

of earlier fossil discoveries, and description of localities (Cape Thompson, 

Cape Lisburne, Cape Beaufort, Glacier Bay, Cape Yaklok) and fossils. 

Four Devonian and nine Carboniferous brachiopod species from Saginaw 

Bay, Kuiu Island, described; no illustrations, [see a/so Dall, 1896.]

Shinier, H. W., and Schrock, R. R., 1944, Index fossils of North America: 

New York, 837 p., 303 pis.

Page 89. LiStS Lithostrot tone lla americana Hayasaka from MiSSiSSlppian

of Alaska [ other coral genera of widespread distribution occur in Alaskan 

Paleozoic rocks; see S. Smith, 1945; Meek, 1867; Bassler, 1937]. 

Page 381 Lists Megaiomus canadensis Hall from Alaskan Silurian.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 275

Page 467. ShOWS Bathmopterus Kirk, 1928, ES Synonym Of Euomphalopterus

Roemer, 1876 [ many undescribed species of widespread molluscan genera 

occur in the Alaskan Paleozoic, see Flower, 1941a and 19461. Pages 643 

and 651. Trilobites listed as occurring in Alaska: Cyphaspis (Ordovician 

through Devonian) and Proetus crassimarginatus Hall (Lower Devonian) 

[see Kobayashi, 1935 and 1936a; for references to Brachiopoda see Cooper, 

1944].

Smith, P. S., 1910, Geology and mineral resources of the Solomon and 

Casadepaga quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 433, 234 p.

Pages 23-25 and 54-55. Fossil evidence for age of Port Clarence lime - 

stone summarized [see Knopf, 1908; Collier and others, 1908]. Quotes 

E. M. Kindle regarding one collection of very poor fossil material, that 

may represent a Carboniferous horizon, from the Sowik limestone.

' ___ 1913, The Noatak-Kobuk region, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 536, 

160 p.

Pages 65-69 and 72-78 . Stratigraphyandage relationships ofpre-Carboniferous rocks discussed. Faunas from Noatak sandstone assigned to 

upper Mississippian by G. H. Girty. Author suggests that certain of the 

lower beds of Noatak may be Upper Devonian. Lisburne limestone fossils 

also assigned a late Mississippian age. Girty states that the coralline 

faunas probably are a different aspect of the fauna found in the Noatak 

sandstone. E. M. Kindle suggests that one collection from limestones 

assigned to Lisburne may be Devonian in age. Fauna! lists.

___1915, Notes on the geology of Gravina Island, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Prof. Paper 95-H, p. 97-105.

Pages 99-;03.. Quotes report of E. M. Kindle as to Middle Devonian 

age of fossils from near South Vallenar Point, Gravina Island. One other 

Devonian collection, examined by Edwin Kirk, from 3 miles north of Dall 

Head, Gravina Island [see a/so Wright and Wright, 1908]. An ambiguous 

fauna provisionally called Triassic by G. H. Girty.

___ 1917, The Lake dark-central Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 655, 162 p.

Pages 54-57. Age of limestones in Lime Hills discussed at length. No 

fossils found in Lime Hills, but indirect evidence suggests that rocks of 

Devonian age lie areally close to the limestones. Devonian age for limestones strongly indicated.

f ___1939, Area! geology of Alaska: U.S. Geol..Survey Prof. Paper 192,100 p.

Pages JO-34. Detailed stratigraphic summary of all Paleozoic rocks 

in Alaska; includes interpretations of ages and correlations. Some older 

published assignments are changed; for example, Sadlerochit sandstone 

shifted from Pennsylvanian to Permian age. A collection from hills 4 miles 

northwest of Mumtrak, in Goodnews Bay district, assigned a Permian age 

by G. H. Girty; this material previously unreported. Correlation chart 

included.

Smith, P. S., and Eakin, H. M., 1911, A geologic reconnaissance in southeastern Seward Peninsula and the Norton Bay-Nulato region, Alaska: U. S. 

Geol. Survey Bull. 449, 146 p.

Pages 47-50. Collections from the Kwiniuk River areaand White Mountain, according to E. M. Kindle, contain Mega/omus canac/ensis, indicating 

Late Silurian-age [Kindle correlated with Guelph fauna, now considered
276 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

latest Middle Silurian; see Swartz and others, 1942]. Poorly preserved 

fossils from sea cliffs south of Mt. Kwiniuk referred to Devonian or Carboniferous by Kindle and E. O. Ulrich. No fossil lists.

1 Smith, P. S., and Mertie, J. B., Jr., 1930, Geology and mineral resources 

of northwestern Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 815, 351 p.

Pages 131, 136-141, 146-151, 158, 165-168, and 1 79-185 . Ages of Silurian and Devonian rocks based on Edwin Kirk's identifications of small 

fossil collections. Upper Devonian Spiriferdisjunct us zone well represented 

in rocks of upper Killik valley. Flora from basal Noatak sandstone reported 

by David White to be early Mississippian in age. Reports by G. H. Girty 

on faunas of Noatak and Lisburne formations tabulated; extensive collections indicate age is Mississippian, but Girty suggests Noatak fauna is 

early Mississippian and Lisburne fauna is late Mississippian; the two faunas 

are not differentiated in the table.

*Smith, S., 1945, Upper Devonian corals of the Mackenzie River region, Canada: 

Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 59, 126 p., 35 pis.

Monograph describing 67 coral species, 20 of which are new, mainly 

from the Mackenzie Basin between Fort Simpson and the Slave River; discussion of correlation and extensive bibliography on fossil corals. Pages 38,

39, and 47; plate 14, figure 4; plate 18, figure 1; plate 23, figure 1. TWO 

Species redeSCribed: Prismatophyllum quadrigeminum arcticum (Meek)

and Phiiiipsastraea verriin (Meek), from Middle Devonian of Porcupine

River region. Page 66. States that Zaphrentis recta and Z. mcfarlanei

[see Meek, 1867] are not congeneric with z. phrygia but are more closely 

allied to forms described under Mictophyiium Wedekind.

Spencer, A. C., 1906, The Juneau gold belt, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 287, p. 1-137.

Page 10. Summary of data on Paleozoic rocks of southeastern Alaska; 

includes report of Carboniferous fossils from limestone at Taku Harbor 

[see Buddington and Chapin, 1929, for latest summary].

Spurr, J. E., 1898, Geology of the Yukon gold district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. 

Survey 18th Ann. Rept., pt. 3, p. 87-392.

Pages 168-172. "Rampart series" dated as pre-Carboniferous. Collection of fossils from "Tahkandit series, " above Circle City on the Yukon 

River, dated by Charles Schuchert as Upper Carboniferous. Fauna! list 

made up predominantly of brachiopods [see Mertie, 1937b, for recent summary ] . Plants from limestone below mouth of Mynook Creek on the Yukon 

River identified by David White as possibly Middle or Upper Devonian.

1900, A reconnaissance in southwestern Alaska in 1898: U. S. Geol.

Survey 20th Ann. Rept., pt. 7, p. 31-264.

Pages 158-159. Fossils from Tachatna series, on Kuskokwim River 

about 10 miles upstream from Tachatna [now Takotna] River junction, assigned Middle Devonian age by Charles Schuchert; fossil list.

Spurr, J. E., and Post, W. S., 1899, Report of the Kuskokwim expedition, 

in Maps and descriptions of routes of exploration in Alaska in 1898, with 

general information concerning the territory: U. S. Geol. Survey Special 

Pub., 138 p., 10 maps.

Page 35. Mentions collecting Devonian fossils on the upper Kuskokwim 

River; locality shown on map [see Spurr, 1900, for details].

tSteidtmann, Edward, and Cathcart, S. H., 1922, Geology of the York tin deposits, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 733, 130 p.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 277

Pages 21 and $3-29. Report on new fossil collections and re evaluation 

of previously collected material from western part of Seward Peninsula. 

Collections previously recorded as Upper Cambrian assigned to Lower 

Ordovician by Edwin Kirk; C. D. Walcott and E. O. Ulrich concurred. 

Most of the earlier "Silurian" collections assigned to Upper Ordovician; 

one collection called probably Middle Silurian. Carboniferous collections 

restudied by G. H. Girty, who stated, "Personally I have scarcely a doubt 

that these fossils represent the same coral fauna that occurs in the Lisburne 

limestone, upper Mississippian***". Extensive fauna! lists.

Stevenson, J. J., 1893, Some notes on southeastern Alaska and its people: 

Scottish Geog. Mag., v. 9, no. 2, p. 66-83.

Page 70. Mentions finding form like Acervuiaria in moraine of Dirt 

Glacier. Age of limestone from which fossil supposedly came given as not 

younger than Middle Devonian [.see Gushing, 1895].

Swartz, C. K., and others, 1942, Correlation of the Silurian formations of 

NorthAmerica: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 53, no. 4, p. 533-538, Ipl.

Stratigraphic column for southeastern Alaska, prepared by Edwin Kirk, 

indicates presence of Lissatrypa fauna in Upper Silurian. Columnfor central northern Alaska, also prepared by Kirk, indicates presence of graptolites of approximately Clinton age in shales and limestones on Porcupine 

River. Limestones and dolomites of central northern Alaska bear fauna 

with Guelph affinities, but they may be of Upper Silurian age.

Teichert, C., 1937, Ordovician and Silurian faunas from Arctic Canada: 

Report of Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24, v. 1, no. 5, 169 p.

Page J32. Refers to listing of Haiysites harti Etheridge from Port 

Clarence limestone [see Kindle, 1911, p. 347] in fauna considered of 

Middle Silurian age.

Troedsson, G. T., 1929, On the Middle and Upper Ordovician faunas of northern Greenland, pt. 2, Meddel. om Grtfnland, Bd. 72, Afd. 1, 197 p., 

56 pis., 12 figs.

Pages 172-1 73. Summarizes occurrences of Middle and Upper Ordovician 

fossils, especially corals, on Seward Peninsula [see Kindle, 1911], in 

Porcupine Valley [see Kindle, 1908], and in Yukon-Tanana region [see 

Prindle, 1913a],

*Ulrich, E. O., and Cooper, G. A., 1936, New genera and species of Ozarkian 

and Canadian brachiopods: Jour. Paleontology, v. 10, no. 7, p. 616-631.

Makes available new names of forms described in Ulrich and Cooper, 

1938; short descriptions, no plates.

1938, Ozarkian and Canadian brachiopoda: Geol. Soc. America Special

Paper 13, 323 p., 14 figs., 57 pis.

Describes four species of brachiopods from Yukon-Alaska boundary region 

(Tatonduk River area): Westonia fingu/oides(Kobayashi), Upper Cambrian 

or Lower Ordovician; Eikania aiaskensis Ulrich and Cooper, 1936, Upper 

Cambrian; Sc/uzam6on &orea/i'sUlrichandCooper, n. sp., Upper Cambrian; 

Conodiscus burl ing i (Kobayashi), Upper Cambrian.

Ulrich, E. 0., Foerste, A. P., Miller, A. K., and Unklesbay, A. G., 1944, 

Ozarkian and Canadian Cephalopods, pt. 3, Longicones and summary: 

Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 58, 226 p., 68 pis.

Pages 23 and 66-67. Refers to Flower's (1941a) description of three 

species from Seward Peninsula, p/ectoceras? sewardense referred to
278 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Tarphyceras?? [see Flower 1946] . E llesmeroceras bridgei and E. expansion listed, but no new descriptive data given.

Wedow, Helmuth, Jr., 1954, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the 

Eagle-Nation area, east-central Alaska, 1948: U. S. Geol. Survey 

Circ. 316, 9 p., 1 pi., 1 fig.

Stratigraphic summary of Paleozoic rocks [see a/soMertie, 1930, 1933, 

and 1937bJ and some new data. Several types of Ordovician(?) graptolites 

collected from quartzitic sandstone and shale on Tatonduk River.

Weller, J. M., and others, 1948, Correlation of the Mississippian formations 

of North America: Geol. Soc. America Bull,, v. 59, no. 2, p. 91-196, 

2 pis., 7 figs.

Pages 128-130. J. Steele Williams summarizes knowledge of faunas in 

Alaska as of 1948 and discusses formations of known 'Or probable Mississippian age; age assignments shown in columns 1 through 5 are explained.

White, D., 1909, The upper Paleozoic floras, their succession and range: 

Jour. Geology, v. 17, no. 4, p. 320-341.

Pages 324-325. Discusses early Mississippian floras (Pocono), their 

distribution, and the affinities of the Pocono flora with the Arctic Alaskan 

flora [see Collier, 1906].

Williams, J. Steele, 1941, Late Paleozoic faunas of Alaska [abs.]: Geol. 

Soc. America Bull., v. 52, no. 12, p. 1978.

Discusses Mississippian and Permian faunas of Alaska. Tentative correlations of the latter with other Arctic Permian faunas given; relationship 

to the Phosphoria fauna also indicated [ see Girty, 1927].

___ 1942, Ecological studies of late Paleozoic faunas: Natl. Research 

Council, Div. Geology and Geography Ann. Rept., app. N, p. 41.and 42.

Calls attention to studies of Alaskan late Paleozoic faunas being undertaken to determine relationships of various faunal elements to lithqlcgic 

facies and Stratigraphic position. Suggests that Permian faunas are largely 

of Arctic aspect, but that some forms are like those of the Phosphoria and 

others are related to west coast faunas [see Girty, 1927].

___1946, Mississippian of southeastern Alaska [abs.]: Amer. Assoc. 

Petroleum Geologists, Abstracts of papers given at 1946 meeting, Chicago, 

p. 57-58.

Summarizes knowledge of Mississippian rocks and faunas. Faunas

mainly composed of corals, bryozoans, and brachiopods. Preliminary 

studies indicate absence of rocks of Kinderhook or early Osage age. Mississippian rocks in most places underlain unconformably by Devonian rocks 

and overlain unconf ormably by Permian or younger strata. No Pennsylvanian rocks definitely known to be present, [see Buddington and Chapin, 

1929.]

___ 1947, Permian rocks of the upper Yukon region, Alaska [abs. ]: Geol. 

Soc. America Bull., v. 58, no. 12, p. 1241.

Discusses correlation and age of Permian rocks in Alaska; "It is thought 

that all the rocks included in the Permian of the upper Yukon region are 

younger than Wolf camp."

Williams, J. Steele,and Reed, J. C., 1946, Permian stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska [abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 57, no. 12, p. 1243.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ALASKAN PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY 279

Notes on type and distribution of Permian rocks, which are divided into 

two units: a lower, predominantly clastic sequence containing conspicuous 

igneous rocks; and an upper, predominantly limestone, dolomite, and chert 

sequence.

'Willis, B., 1912, Index to the stratigraphy of North America: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Prof. Paper 71, 894 p., Ipl., 19 figs.

Page 221 . Refers to Ordovician graptolites from Alaska Range, reported 

by Brooks and Prindle (1911), and Ordovician fossils found on Porcupine 

River (Brooks and Kindle, 1908). Page 222. Statement by E. M. Kindle 

that Cambrian and Ordovician faunas have been collected from Port Clarence 

limestone and that fossils previously determined as Silurian are of Late 

Ordovician age. Page 262. Quotes Kindle (1907) regarding Silurian faunas 

of southeastern Alaska; faunal list and discussion. Page 265. Refers to 

Kindle's (1911) discussion of Port Clarence limestone faunas; additional 

statement that Silurian Megaiomus canadensis, identical to Glacier Bay and 

Freshwater Bay form, was found in magnesian limestone on Fish River. 

Page 266. Refers to Kindle's discussion of Silurian fauna from Porcupine 

River (1908b, p. 126). Page 336. States that collections made by Wright 

and Kindle have marked European affinities and represent Lower, Middle, 

and Upper Devonian, but are not related to American contemporaneous 

faunas; cites Kindle (1907, p. 324-330); Page 337.-States that Middle Devonian fossils have been found in several places in Yukon-Tanana region. 

Page 33& Statement by P. S. Smith that Devonian fossils have been found 

on Fish River, north of Golofnin Bay, and that Devonian (or possibly Car- 

. boniferous) fossils have been found irithe Darby Range on Seward Peninsula, 

'page 33& Brooks (1906, p. 220) quoted on probable Middle Devonian age 

of Rampart group [see Mertie, 1937b, for more recent interpretation]; 

Page 339. Quotes at length from Kindle (1908a, p. 327-330) regarding age 

and nature of Salmontrout fauna. Page 392. Quotes Kindle (1907, p. 330- 

335) on lower Carboniferous fauna of Freshwater Bay. Page 3.93. Quotes 

Kindle (1907, p. 330-335) on upper Carboniferous fauna of southeastern 

Alaska; author says that, although Girty considers the fauna to be most 

closely related to the Russian Gschelstufe, the fauna resembles that-of the 

McCloud limestone of California [now considered to be of Permian(?) and 

Permian age]. Page 394. Quotes Moffit and Knopf (1910, p. 25-26) on 

Carboniferous formations of Nabesna-White River region. Page 3.95. Cites 

Collier (1908, p. 81-82) on several Carboniferous faunas collected from 

Seward Peninsula. Page 395. Cites Brooks and Kindle (1907) and Kindle 

(1908a, p. 332-336) regarding Carboniferous faunas and floras studied by 

G. H. Girty and David White (from Porcupine River valley). Pages 396- 

3.99.-Quotes extensively from Collier (1906, p. 16-21) and Kindle (1909, 

p. 522-526) on stratigraphic relationships, age, and correlation of faunas 

from Cape Lisburne and Cape Thompson areas, northwestern Alaska: cites 

letter from G. H. Girty to effect that Lisburne formation is to be correlated, 

in the main, with the upper Mississippian, although an older fauna is present 

which contains a few invertebrates, among them Leptaena rhomboidaiis, 

not known above the Burlington limestone.

Wright, C. W., 1904, The Porcupine placer district, Alaska: U. S. Geol. 

Survey Bull. 236, 35 p.

Page 16. G. H. Girty indicates that a small collection of fossils from 

Porcupine Creek is from upper part of lower Carboniferous and that fauna 

isaPacific Coast type; identified forms are "Crinoidal fragments, Froductus

latissimus, Productus semiret icu 1 at us, Spirifer striatus, Camarophoria?

sp." [Age and identifications revised by Girty in Eakin, 1919, p. 11. ] 

1906, A reconnaissance of Admiralty Island, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey

Bull. 287, p. 138-154.
280 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Pages 140-141 and 143 . Metamorphosed strata include rocks as old as 

Silurian. Quotes G. H. Girty on probable Permian and Carboniferous age 

of fossils from a point near the southeast entrance of PybusBay, Admiralty 

Island.

Wright, C. W., 1915, Geology and ore deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan 

Peninsula, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 87, 110 p.

Pages 17-19 and 70-71. Stratigraphic summary of Paleozoic rocks in 

Ketchikan district. Faunal lists of Lower and Middle Devonian limestones 

on Long Island [see a/so Kindle, 1907; Wright and Wright, 1908].

'Wright, F. E.,and Wright, C. W., 1908, The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining 

districts, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull 347, 210 p.

Pages -45-57. Detailed lists of Silurian and Devonian faunas, prepared 

by E. M. Kindle, and of lower and upper Carboniferous faunas, prepared 

by G. H. Girty [some of these data have been reevaluated; see Buddington 

and Chapin, 1929].
INDEX

Included in this index are references to systems, major taxonomic groups, geographic areas, major 

localities, rock units, and a list of paleontologists whose determinations are included in papers by 

other geologists.

The cross index is not complete. For example, some papers that mention brachiopods are not listed 

under Brachiopoda. Only those that specifically refer to Brachiopoda in the title or annotation are indexed. Clearly, papers which include extensive fauna! lists usually mention brachiopods as well. Similar comments apply to other fossil groups.

Geographic regions and major localities, indicated by Roman numerals and numbers in brackets, are

shown in plate 29.

Alaska Peninsula [vn]

Plants, Catamites n. sp.': Eichwald 1871; Goeppert 1861; Grewingk 1850; Knowlton 1896. 

Questionable plant locality: Isbister 1855; Knowlton 1894. 

Alaska Range [ V]

Correlation, railroad belt1: Capps 1940 

Devonian fossils, Broad Pass region: Moffitl915 

Faunas, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian: Brooks

1911.

Permian: Mendenhall 1905 

Permian(?): Ross 1933 

Middle Devonian rocks: Capps 1933

B

Brachiopoda

Aiasknspira, n. gen., Silurian: Kirk and Amsden

1952.

Artinskian faunas: Girty 1927 

Brooksina, n. gen., Silurian: Kirk 1922 

Cambrian (and Ordovician) spp.: Ulrich and

Cooper 1936, 1938. 

Cambrian spp., Middle: Cooper 1936 

Cambrian spp., Upper: Kobayaski' 1935 

Cape Thompson locality, Carboniferous: Hooper

1881.

Carboniierous spp., upper[?]: Brooks 1900b 

Conchidium , Upper Silurian: Kirk 1918b; Mertie

1927.

Cymbidium , n. gen., Silurian: Kirk 1927b 

Devonian spp., Porcupine valley: Meek 1867 

Devonian and Carboniferous spp., Kuiulslandlocality: Schuchert 1896. 

Gypiduie, Lower Devonian type: Prindle and Hess

1906.

Harpidiun, n. gen., Silurian: Kirk 1926 

Index fossils: Cooper 1944 

"Lepfneno rhomboidaiis, " early Mississippian:

Willis 1912.

"Liaaairypa" fauna: Swartz and others 1942 

itfer/stino-type, northern Alaska: Schraderl904

Brachiopoda Continued

Paleozoic fauna! lists, southeastern: Kindle 1907 

Permianfauna,south-centralAlaska: Mendenhall

1905. 

".Productua" gifanteus zone, Mississippian:

Girty 1905; Prindle 1909.

Productids, Derbyshire limestone age [Mississippian]: Buckland 1839. 

Silurian fauna, Upper, southeastern: Kirk and

Amsden 1952.

Silurian fossils, northern Alaska: Mertie 1923 

"Spiriter" arcticus zone, Permian: Eakin 1918a;

Eakin 1919. 

"Spiri/er" diajunctua zone, Upper Devonian:

Smith and Mertie 1930. 

S/r/ngocepha/us zone, Middle Devonian: Kirk

1918b, 1927a. 

'Tahkandit "series" fauna, Eagle-Circle district:

Spurr 1898. 

'Bryozoa'

Carboniferous sp., upper[?]: Brooks 1900b;

Prindle and Hess 1906. 

Fenesteiia [Mississippian]: Etheridge 1878 

Silurian(?) sp.: Prindle and Hess 1906 

Burling, L. D. 

Cambrian fossils, Eagle-Circle district: Cairnes

1914b; Mertie 1937b.

Cambrian 

Brachiopods, Middle: Cooper 1936

Upper: Ulrich and Cooper 1936, 1938 

Correlations: Howell and others 1944 

Faunas, Eagle-Circle district: Mertie 1930,1933 

Yukon-Alaska boundary region: Cairnes 1913,

1914b.

Yukon-Tanana region: Mertie 1937b 

Trilobites, Eagle-Circle district: Kobayashi

1935, 1936a, 1936b. 

Carboniferous

Alaska-Yukon boundary: Cairnes 1914b

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282 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Carboniferous Continued 

Brachiopodspp., southeastern: Schuchert 1896 

Cape Lisburne fossils: Dall 1869; Collier 1905,

1906; Grewingk 1850; Isbister 1855. 

Cape Thompson fossils: Grewingk 1850; Hooper

1881; Isbister 1855; Kindle 1909. 

Coral sp., southeastern: Gushing 1895; Emerson

1904.

Corals, distribution of: Hill 1948 

Corals, lower Carboniferous: Collier and others

1908; Eichwald 1871. 

Fades, northern Alaska: Dutro, Bowsher, and

Brosgd* 1951.

Faunas and correlation: Willis 1912; Dall 1896 

Fauna, lower Carboniferous: Girty 1905 

Derbyshire limestone equivalent: Buckland

1839. 

Fossil lists, Carboniferous, upper: Capps 1916;

Spurr 1898. 

Carboniferous, upperf?]; Brooks 1900b; Prindle 1913a; Prindle and Hess 1906. 

Carboniferous, lower, northern: Schrader

1904.

Porcupine Creek, southeastern: Wright 1904 

Southeastern: Wright and Wright 1908 

Tahkandit "series": Emmons 1898 

Wellesley formation: Brooks 1900a; Mertie

1931. 

Gschelian equivalentsf?]: Girty 1927; Kindle

1907; Moffit and Knopf 1910; Willis 1912. 

Plants, Alaska Peninsula: Eichwald 1871; Goeppert 1861; Grewingk 1850; Hollick 1936; 

Knowlton 1896.

Questionable locality: Knowlton 1894 

Rocks, Carboniferous, upper[?]: Chapin 1918 

Southeastern: Moffit 1914; Knopf 1912a, 1912b;

Spencer 1906. 

Seward Peninsula, Cape Mountain localities:

Fay 1907. 

Sowik limestone fossils: Smith 1910

Cephalopoda

Aiaskoccraa, n. gen.: Flower 1946; Miller and

Kummel 1945.

Ordovician spp., Lower, Seward Peninsula: 

Flower 1941a, b; Ulrich and others 1944.

Coelenterata

Coral faunas, compilation: Bassler 1950 

Lisburne formation: Schrader 1904

Devonian corals and stromatoporoids, northern: 

Dutro 1951.

Devonian coral, Middle, southeastern: Stevenson 1893.

Devonian coral spp., Porcupine valley: Meek 

1867; S. Smith 1945.

Carboniferous corals, Cape Lisburne: Eichwald 

1871.

Fauna! lists, Middle Devonian: Moffit 1938b 

Middle and Upper Ordovician: Troedsson 1929 

Upper Ordovician: Foerste 1924

Haiysites, Middle Silurian: Teichert 1937

Lithostrotionetia, n. sp. i Hayasakal936;Shimer 

and Shrock 1944.

Lithostrotionid corals, Mississippian: Buckland 

1839; Collier and others 1908; Hill 1948.

Lonadoieia sp., southeastern: Gushing 1895; Emerson 1904.

Mississippian corals, international boundary:

Maddren 1912.

Seward Peninsula: Steidtmann and Cathcart 

1922.

Paleocydus tirbyi, Porcupine valley: Bassler 

1937; Meek 1867.

sdophyiium, n. gen., Mississippian: Barker and 

McLaren 1950.

.Silurian Caienipora, southeastern: Isbister 1855

Tabulates, Middle Devonian: Prindle and Hess 

1906.

Cooper, G. A. 

Cambrian brachiopods, Eagle-Circle district:

Mertie 1937b.

Correlation ,; 

Alaska-Yukon boundary region: Cairnes 1914a, b ' 

Cambrian, Eagle-Circle district: Howell 1944

Upper: Kobayashi 1935, 1936b

Carboniferous: Moffit and Mertie 1923 v 

Carboniferous and Permian: Girty 1905, 1909,

1927; Leffingwell 1919. 

Devonian: Cooper and others 1942 

Devonian corals, Upper: S. Smith 1945 

Devonian faunas, northern: Dutro 1951 

Devonian and Mississippian faunas, northern:

Dutro 1953. 

General: Brooks 1902a, 1906; Bruet 1945; Kirk

1929; Mertie 1926, 1930, 1933, 1937b; Schuchert 1896; Smith 1939; Willis 1912. 

Late Paleozoic, Alaska-British Columbia: Case

1919. 

Mississippian: Kindle 1909; Prindle 1909; Weller

and others 1948; Williams 1946. 

Mississippian and Permian: Williams 1941 

Ordovician and Cambrian, Eagle-Circle district:

Kobayashi 1936a. 

Ordovician and Devonian fossils, southwestern:

Eakin 1918.

Pennsylvanian: Moore and others 1944 

Permian: King 1930; Martin 1926; Mendenhall

1905; Williams 1942, 1947. 

Silurian: Swartz and others 1942 

Silurian, Upper: Kirk and Amsden 1952 

Upper Yukon region: Brooks and Kindle 1908

Devonian

Alaska-Yukon boundary region: Cairnes 1914b 

Brachiopodspp., southeastern: Schuchert 1896 

Coral fauna: Bassler 1950 

Corals, Porcupine valley: Meek 1867; S. Smith

1945.

Yukon-Tanana: Prindle and Hess 1905 

Fauna! summary: Dall 1896 

Fossil lists, Alaska Range: Moffit 1915 

Eagle-Circle district: Mertie 1930, 1933 

Lower arid Middle: Prindle and Hess 1906 

Middle: Capps 1916; Eakin 1918; Kindle 1908a 

Middle and Upper: Buddington and Chapin

1929; Kindle and Burling 1914. 

Northern: Smith 1913 

Seward Peninsula: Mendenhall 1902 

Southeastern: Kindle 1907; Willis 1912; Wright

and Wright 1908; Knopf 1912b. 

Southwestern: Mertie 1937a; Smith 1917; Spurr

1900; Spurr and Post 1899. 

Fragmentary fossils, Yukon-Tanana: Eakin 1914 

Middle Devonian coral, southeastern: Brooks

1902a, b; Stevenson 1893. 

Middle Devonian[?]: Brooks 1911; Mertie and 

Harrington 1924; Prindle 1913a; Martin 1922. 

Middle and Upper Devonian fauna, northern:

Dutro 1951.

Plants, "Tahkandit series": Emmons 1898 

Porcupine valley fossils: Meek 1867 

"Portage" fauna, Eagle-Circle district: Kindle

1919.

Questionable age assignments: Brown 1924; Collier 1902; Smith and Eakin 1911. 

Rocks, Middle Devonian: Capps 1933; Buddington 1923.

Northern: Gryc 1951 

South-central: Moffit 1941 

Upper Devonian fauna: Dutro 1953; Prindle 1908; 

Smith and Mertie 1930.
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Devonian Continued

Wellesley formation fauna: Brooks 1900a 

"West Fork series" fossils, northern: Schrader 

1900.

E

Eagle-Circle district [16] 

Brachiopods, Middle Cambrian: Cooper 1936 

Cambrian and Ordovician faunas: Kobayashi

1936a.

Cambrian, correlation: Howell and others 1944 

Cambrian faunas, Upper: Kobayashi 1935, 1936b 

Cambrian fossils: Cairnes 1913 

Carboniferous fossils: Prindle 1909 

Devonian fauna, Upper: Kindle 1919 

Nation River formation, age of: Moore and

others 1944.

Permian rocks, correlation: Williams 1947 

Stratigraphy and fauna! lists: Cairnes 1914a, b;

Kindle and Burling 1914; Mertie 1930, 1933. 

Stratigraphic summary: Wedow 1954 

"Tahkandit series" fossils: Emmonsl898; Spurr

1898. 

Echinodermata

ciithrocrinua, Pennsylvania^?] genus: Bassler

and Moodey 1943; Kirk 1937a, b; Moore and

Laudon 1943.

Formations 

Calico Bluff formation: Brooks and Kindle 1908;

Mertie 1930, 1933, 1937b; Prindle 1909. 

Chitistone limestone: Mendenhall and Schrader

1_903.

"Fickett series": Schrader 1902 

Lisburne limestone: Bowsher and Dutro 1950;

Collier 1905, 1906; Gryc 1951; Harker and

McLaren 1950; LeffingweU 1919; Schrader

1902, 1904; Smith 1913; Smith and Mertie

1930; Willis 1912. 

Mankomen formation: Mendenhall 1905; Moffit

1912, 1938b. 

Nation River formation: Brooks and Kindle 1908;

Mertie 1930, 1933, 1937b; Moore and others

1944; Prindle 1909.

Nicolai greenstone: Mendenhall and Schraderl903 

Noatak sandstone: Dutro 1953; Gryc 1951; Smith

1913; Smith and Mertie 1930. 

"Nome series": Brooks and others 1901 

Port Clarence limestone: Collier 1902; Collier

and others 1908; Hume 1925; Kindle 1911;

Knopf 1908; Teichert 1937; WiUis 1912. 

Rampart group: Willis 1912 

Sadlerochit formation: Gryc 1951; Leffingwell

1919; Smith 1939. 

Salmontrout limestone: Cooper and others 1942;

Kindle 1908a; Willis 1912. 

Sowik limestone: Smith 1910 

Strelna formation: Moffit 1938a; Moffit and Mertie

1923.

Tahkandit limestone: Mertie 1930, 1933, 1937b 

"Tahkandit series": Emmons 1898;Spurr 1898 

"Takotna [Tachatna] series": Martin 1922; Spurr

1900.

Tatalina group: Prindle 1913a 

Tatina group: Brooks 1911 

Tonzona group: Brooks 1911; Prindle 1913a 

Wellesley formation: Brooks 1900a; Mertie 1931 

Fusulinidae 

"Fuauiina", Permian form: Brooks 1900b

Paraluaulina alaakenaie, n. Sp. : Dunbar 1946

"Sc/npogorina.", south-central: Moffit 1933

Gastropoda

Bathmopterua , n. gen.: Kirk 1928; Knight 1941;

Shimer and Schrock 1944. 

Glacier Bay, southeastern: Gushing 1892 

Port Clarence limestone fauna, Ordovician:

Knopf 1908. 

Girty, G. H. 

Calico Bluff formation fauna, Eagle-Circle:

Mertie 1937b; Prindle 1909. 

Carboniferous corals, lower, Seward Peninsula:

Collier and others 1908. 

Carboniferous fossils, Canning River area:

Leffingwell 1919. 

International boundary: Cairnes 1914b; Maddren 1912.

Lower, Cape Lisburne: Collier 1906 

Questionable: Moffit 1914 

Southeastern: Buddington and Chapin 1929;

Wright 1904; Wright and Wright 1908. 

Upper: Capps 1916 

Yukon-Tanana: Prindle and Hess 1906 

Devonian fossils, nortnern: Scnrader 1904 

Lisburne limestone fauna, northern: Mertie

1927; Smith 1913; Smith and Mertie 1930. 

Mankomen formation fauna, Permian: Moffit

1912, 1938b. 

Mississippian, general: Moffit 1918; Smith 1913;

Smith and Mertie 1930; Willis 1912. 

Upper, Seward Peninsula: Steidtmann and

Cathcart 1922. 

Mississippian and Permian faunas: Mertie 1930,

1937b; Moffit 1938a. 

Ordovician fossils, Lower, Seward Peninsula:

Brooks and others 1901.

Permian fossils: Brown 1924; Eakin 1918a, 1919; 

Mertie 1938; Moffit 1933; Moffit and Knopf 

1910; Prindle 1913b; Ross 1933. 

Permian, southwestern: Mertie 1938; Smith 1939 

Pybus Bay fossils, southeastern: Wright 1906 

Strelna formation fauna, south-central: Moffit

and Mertie 1923. 

"West Fork series "fossils, northern: Schrader

1900.

Graptolithina

Clinton fauna: Swartz and others 1942 

Ordovician and Silurian faunas, southeastern: 

Buddington 1923; Buddington and Chapin 1929. 

Ordovician andSilurianspp,, descriptions: Ruedemann 1947. 

Ordovician fauna, Alaska Range: Brooks 1911;

Willis 1912.

Ordovician, Lower, southeastern: Kirk 1918a 

Ordovician(?) fossils, Eagle-Circle: Wedow

1954.

Silurian fauna, Middle or Upper: Kindle 1908a 

Undated fossils, Yukon-Alaska boundary: Cairnes 

1913.

Henbest, L. G. 

Pennsylvanian, southeastern: Kirk 1937a

Kirk, E.

Bathmooterua, Silurian gastropod: Knight 1941 

ciithrocrinua, Pennsylvania^?] crinoid: Bassler and Moodey 1943.
284 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Kirk, E. Continued

Devonian fossils: Eakin 1914; Mertie 1937a; Moffit 1915. 

Lower Paleozoic fossils: Brown 1924; Mertie

1930, 1937b. 

Middle Devonian fossils: Capps 1916; Mertie

1918; Moffit 1938b.

Ordovician and Devonian fossils: Eakin 1918 

Ordovician and Silurian fossils, Seward Peninsula: Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922. 

Silurian and Devonian fossils: Buddington and 

Chapin 1929; Burchard 1913; Mertie 1923; 

Smith and Mertie 1930. 

Silurian correlations: Swartz and others 1942 

Southeastern Devonian: Buddington 1923; Smith

1915.

Kindle, E. M. 

Carboniferous(?) fossils, Seward Peninsula:

Smith 1910. 

Devonian fossils, Alaska-Yukon boundary:

Cairnes 1914b. 

Northern: Smith 1913 

Southeastern: Smith 1915 

Yukon-Tanana: Prindle 1913b 

Faunas and correlation: Willis 1912 

Port Clarence limestone fauna: Knopf 1908 

Silurian and Devonian fossils, Seward Peninsula:'

Smith and Eakin 1911. 

Southeastern: Wright and Wright 1908 

Yukon-Tanana: Prindle 1908; Prindle and Hess

1906. 

Kobayashi, T.

Cambriantrilobites, Eagle-Circle: Mertie 1937b

Localities, major 

Admiralty Island [ 38]: Buddington and Chapin

1929; Wright 1906.

Bremnerregion: (see Hanagita-Bremnerregion) 

Broad Pass (central Alaska Range) [20]: Moffit

1915. 

Brooks Range, central [3]: Bowsher and Dutro

1950; Schrader 1902, 1904; Smith and Mertie

1930. 

Brooks Range, western [2]: Dutro 1951; Smith

1913; Smith and Mertie 1930. 

Canada-Alaska boundary (north of Porcupine

valley) [7]: Harker and McLaren 1950; Hay -

asaka 1936; Maddren 1912. 

Canning River district [61: LeSingwell 1919 

Cape Aklek (Puale Bay) [34]: Eichwald 1871;

Goeppert 1861; Hollick 1936; Knowlton 1896. 

Cape Lisburne area (includes Cape Thompson)

[1]: Buckland 1839; Collier 1905, 1906;

Collier and others 1908; Dall 1869; Etheridge

1878; Grewingk 1850; Hill 1938; Hooper 1881;

Isbister 1855; Kindle 1909; Willis 1912. 

Cape Mountain (Seward Peninsula) [ 9]: Fay 1907;

Knopf 1909; Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922. 

Cape Thompson: (aoc. Cape Lisburne area) 

Chandalar district [4]: Mertie 1923 

Chandalar-Koyukuk district: (see Chandalar district) Schrader 1900. 

Chitina valley [30]: Moffit 1918, 1938a

Chulitna River [19]: RoSS 1933

Circle district: (see Eagle-Circle district)

COpp6I River region, north-central [22]: Mendenhail 1005.

Cosna-Nowitna area [13]: Eakin isiet

Eagle-Circle district [16]: Brooks and Kindle 

1908; Cairnes 1913, 1914a, 1914b; Cooper 

1936; Howell and others 1944; Kindle 1919; 

Kobayashi 1935, 1936a, 1936b; Mertie 1930, 

1933, 1937b; Moore and others 1944; Prindle 

1909, 1913b; Spurr 1898; Wedow 1954; Williams 1947; Ulrich and Cooper 1936, 1938.

Localities, major Continued

Fairbanks-Rampart area [14]: Prindle 1908, 

1913a; Prindle and Hess 1905, 1906; Willis 

1912.

Freshwater Bay, Chichagof Island [37]: Buddington and Chapin 1929; Kindle 1907; Knopf 

1912b; Willis 1912.

Glacier Bay [36]: Brooks 1902a, 1902b; Buddington and Chapin 1929; Gushing 1892, 1895; 

Emerson 1904; Kirk 1928; Reid 1896; Stevenson 1893. 

Gulkana and Susitna Rivers (headwaters) [21]:

Moffit 1912.

Hanagita-Bremner region [29]: Moffit 1914 

Heceta Island [43]: Burchard 1913; Kindle 1907; 

Kirk 1918b, 1922, 1926; Kirk and Amsden 

1952; Swartz and others 1942. 

Ketchikandistrict[461: Chapin 1918;Smithl915 

Kosciusko Island [42]: Kirk 1922, 1926, 1927b; 

Kirk and Amsden 1952; Swartz and others 

1942. 

Kotsina-Kuskulanadistrict[28]: MoffitandMertie 1923.

Kuiu Island [ 41 ]: Bassler and Moodey 1943; Buddington and Chapin 1929; Dunbar 1946; Kindle 

1907, 1908b; Kirk 1937a, 1937b; Schuchert 

1896.

Kuskulana district: (see Kotsina-Kuskulana district).

Lime Hills [27]: Smith 1917 

Livengood area [15]: Mertie 1918, 1937b 

Mount McKinley region [ 18]: Brooks 1911; Capps

1933. 

Mount Wrangell district (see Chitina valley):

Mendenhall and Schrader 1903. 

Nixon Fork area [ 17]: Brown 1924; Martin 1922; 

Mertie and Harrington 1924; Spurr 1900; 

Spurr and Post 1899. 

Nizina River, upper [31]: Moffit, 1928 

Nowitna area: (see Cosna-Nowitna area) 

Nushagak district [33]: Mertie 1938 

Nutzotin Mountains [26]: Moffit 1943 

Porcupine Creek (southeastern Alaska) [35]:

Eakin 1918a, 1919; Wright 1904. 

Porcupine valley [8]: Bassler 1937, 1950; Brooks 

and Kindle 1908; Cairnes 1914a, 1914b; 

Cooper and others 1942; Kindle 1908a, 1908b; 

Meek 1867; Smith, S. 1945; Swartz and others 

1942; Troedsson 1929; Willis 1912. 

Prince of Wales Island [44]: Buddington and 

Chapin 1929; Hayasaka 1936; Kindle 1907; 

Kirk 1918b, 1927a; Moore and others 1944; 

Wright 1915.

Ramparts area: (* e e Fairbanks - Rampart area) 

Ruby area [ 12]: Eakin 1914; Mertie 1937a; Mertie and Harrington 1924. 

Seward Peninsula, eastern [llj: Smithand Eakin

1911; Willis 1912.

Seward Peninsula, western [10]: Brooks and 

others 1901; Collier 1902; Flower 1941a, 

1941b, 1946; Foerste 1924; Home 1925; Kindle 1911; Kirk 1929; Knopf 1908; Mendenhall 

1902; Miller and Kummel 1945; Smith 1910; 

Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922; Teichert 1937; 

Troedsson 1929; Ulrich and others 1Q44; 

Willis 1912.

Sheenjek district [5]: Mertie 1927 

Sitka district [40]: Isbister 1855 

Slana district [ 23]: Moffit 1929 

Slana-Tok district [ 24]: Moffit 1938b 

Susitna River: (see Gulkana and Susitna Rivers) 

susiota Pass district: (see Slana-Tok district)

Moffit 1933.

Taku Harbor (southeastern Alaska) [39]: Knopf

1912a; Spencer 1906. 

Tanana valley, upper [25]: Brooks 1900a; Mertie

1931, 1937b; Moffit and Knopf 1910. 

Tetling River district: (see Slana-Tok district)

Moffit 1941.
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285

Localities, major Continued 

Tok district: (see Slana-Tok district) 

White River, upper [32]: Brooks 1900b; Capps

1916; Moffit and Knopf 1910; Willis 1912. 

Wrangell district [45]: Buddington 1923; Kirk

1918a.

Mississfppian 

Calico Bluff formation fauna, Eagle-Circle:

Mertie 1930, 1933, 1937b; Prindle 1909. 

Cape Mountain rocks, Seward Peninsula: Knopf

1909.

Cape Thompson locality, northern: Kindle 1909 

Coral fauna! lists: Bassler 1950 

Correlation: Weller and others 1948; Williams

1941.

Formations, northern: Gryc 1951 

Fossil lists, northern: Smith 1913; Smith and

Mertie 1930.

Porcupine valley: Kindle 1908a 

South-central: Moffit 1918, 1938a; Moffit and

Mertie 1923. 

Southeastern: Buddington and Chapin 1929;

Kindle 1907.

'Internationalboundary, northern: Maddrenl912 

Lisburne limestone fossils, northern: Leffingwell 1919; Mertie 1927. 

Lithostrotionid corals: Barker and McLaren

1950; Hayasaka 1936; Shimer and Schrock

1944. 

Lower Mississippian faunas, northern: Dutro

1953. 

Northern Alaska, stratigraphy: Bowsher and1

Dutro 1950. 

Plants, lower Mississippian: Collier 1906; White

1909.

Southeastern: Williams 1946 

Upper Mississippian corals, Seward Peninsula:

Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922.

N

Northern Alaska [I]

Cape Lisburne coral locality: Hill 1948 

Cape Lisburne fossils: Dall 1869; Grewingk

1850.

Cape Thompson fossil locality: Hooper 1881 

Carboniferous corals: Eichwald 1871 

Carboniferous facies: Dutro, Bowsher, and

Brosge 1951.

Carboniferous fossils: Buckland 1839; Collier 

1905, 1906; Etheridge 1878; Isbister 1855; 

LeffingweU 1919; Maddren 1912; Schrader 

1902.

Devonian faunas: Dutro 1951 

Devonian and Mississippian faunas: Dutro 1953 

Formations, late Paleozoic: Gryc 1951 

Fossil lists, Devonian(7): Schrader 1900 

Mississippian: Smith 1913 

Silurian and Devonian: Mertie 1923 

Silurian, Devonian/ and Carboniferous: Schrader 1904; Smith and Mertie 1930. 

Silurian and Mississippian: Mertie 1927 

Lithostrotionid coral, Mississippian: Harker

and McLaren 1950; Hayasaka 1936. 

Mississippian stratigraphy: Bowsher and Dutro 

1950.

Ordovician 

Alaska-Yukon boundary: Cairnes 1914b

Ordovician Continued 

Bfachiopod'sp., Lower: UlrichandCooper 1936;

1938.

Cephalopoda, Lower: Flower 1941a, b, 1946; 

Miller and Kummel 1945; Ulrich and others 

1944. 

Coral faunas, Middle and Upper: Troedsson 1929

Upper: Foerste 1924 

Fossil lists, Eagle-Circle: Mertie 1933 

Lower: Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922 

Lower and Middle: Buddington and Chapin 1929 

Porcupine valley: Kindle 1908a; WiUis 1912 

Port Clarence limestone: Collier 1902; Collier and others 1908; Hume 1925; Knopf 

1908; Willis 1912. 

Upper: Brown 1924; Eakin 1918; Miller and

others 1954; Prindle 1913b. 

Yukon-Tanana: Mertie 1937b 

Graptolite faunas: Ruedemann 1947 

Lower: Kirk 1918a

Tatina group: Brooks 1911; Willis 1912 

Questionable age: Wedow 1954 

"Pogonip age" fossils, Seward Peninsula:

Brooks and others 1901. 

Port Clarence fauna! equivalents: Kindle and

Burling 1914. 

Symg/iyaurina fauna, Eagle-Circle: Kobayashi

19"36a. 

Ostracoda

Cytbereiia, Yukon-Tanana: Prindle and Hess

1906. 

Legerditia, southeastern: Gushing 1892

Pelecypoda

Buchioia, Eagle-Circle: Kindle 1919 

Mefaiomue sp., Silurian: Prindle 1908; Shimer 

and Schrock 1944; Smith and Eakin 1911; 

Willis 1912.

Pycnodeama, n. gen.: Kirk 1927c 

Pennsylvanian

c lif/iroorinus.southeastern: Bassler and Moodey

1943; Kirk 1937a, b. 

Correlation, age uncertain: Moore and others,

1944.

Fossil lists, age uncertain 

Porcupine valley: Kindle 1908a 

Southeastern: Buddington and Chapin 1929 

Yukon-Tanana: Prindle and Hess 1906 

Permian 

Artinskian faunas: Brown 1924; Eakin 1918a,

1919; Girty 1927; Martin 1926. 

Questionable: Buddington and Chapin 1929 

Artinskian fusulinids, southeastern: Dunbar 1946 

Correlation: King 1930; Williams 1941, 1942,

1947.

Formations, northern: Gryc 1951 

Fossil lists, south-central: Moffit 1933, 1938a;

Moffit and Knopf 1910; Ross 1933. 

Southeastern, Pybus Bay: Wright 1906 

Southwestern: Mertie 1938; Smith 1939 

Yukon-Tanana: Prindle 1913b 

"Hueconian" fauna, correlation with: Girty 1905,

1909.

International boundary faunas: Maddren 1912 

Mankomen formation fauna: Mendenhall 1905;

Moffit 1938b; 

Nicolai greenstone: Mendenhall and Schrader

1903. 

Rocks, south-central: Moffit 1928, 1929, 1941,

1943.

Southeastern: Williams and Reed 1946 

Sadlerochit formation fauna, northern: LeffingweU 1919; Smith 1939.
286 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY

Permian Continued

Tahkandit limestone fauna, Eagle-Circle: Mertie

1930, 1933, 1937b. 

Plants

Carboniferous, Alaska Peninsula: Eichwald

1871; Goeppert 1861; Grewingk 1850; Hollick

1936; Knowlton 1896. 

Carboniferous locality, age questioned: Isbister

1855; Knowlton 1894. 

Devonian, Eagle-Circle: Spurr 1898 

Mississippian, lower, Cape Lisburne region:

Collier 1905, 1906; Kindle 1909; Smith and

Mertie 1930; White 1909. 

Nation River flora: Mertie 1930; Prindle 1909 

Porcupine valley [8]'

Corals, Upper Devonian: Bassler 1950; S. Smith

. 1945.

Devonian fossils: Meek 1867 

Graptolite fauna, Clinton age: Swartz and others

1942. 

Lithostrotionid coral, Mississippian: Hayasaka

1936.

Ordovician fauna: Troedsson 1929 

Salmontrout limestone, Devonian: Cooper and

others 1942; Kindle 1908a. 

Silurian fauna: Kindle 1908b 

Stratigraphy and fauna! lists: Brooks and Kindle

1908; Kindle 1908a.

Resser, C. D.

Cambrian correlation: Howell and others 1944

Cambrian fauna, Middle and Upper: Mertie 1930

Cambrian trilobites: Mertie 1937b 

Ruedemann, R.

Graptolite faunas, Ordovician and Silurian: Buddington and Chapin 1929.

Schuchert, C.

Carboniferous fauna, upper(?): Brooks 1900b 

Devonian fossils, Middle, southwestern: Spurr

1900. 

Mankomen formation fauna, south-central: Mendenhall 1905; Moffit 1938b. 

Northern Alaska fossils, general: Schraderl902

Ordovician and Devonian faunas, Alaska Range;

Brooks 1911. 

Permian fossils, south-central: Moffit 1933

Port Clarence limestone fauna, Seward Peninsula: Collier 1902; Collier and others 1908. 

Silurian and Devonian fossils: Brooks 1900a, b;

Scnrader 18O4.

"Tahkandit series" fauna, Eagle-Circle: Spurr 

1898.

waUesiay formation fossils. Yukon-Tanana;

Brooks 1900a.

Seward Peninsula [ll]

Cephalopods, Lower Ordovician: Flower 1941a,

b, 1946; Miller and Kummel 1945; Ulrich

and others 1944.

Coral faunas, Upper Ordovician: Foerstel924 

Faunas, Ordovician: Troedsson 1929

Fossil localities, undated: Fay 1907 

Ordovician fossils, Lower, "Nome series":

Brooks and others 1901. 

Ordovician gastropods, Port Clarence limestone:

Knopf 1908.

Seward Peninsula [n] Continued 

Port Clarence limestone faunas, Ordovician: 

Collier 1902; Collier and others 1908; Hume 

1925; Kindle 1911; Teichert 1937. 

Silurian and Devonian fossils: Mendenhall 1902;

Smith and Eakin 1911. 

Silurian corals, fossil lists: Bassler 1950 

Silurian pelecypod, Upper: Kirk 1927c 

Sowik limestone fossils, Carboniferous (?): Smith

1910. 

York district fossils, Mississippian: Knopf 1909;

Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922. 

Silurian 

Alaska-Yukon boundary: Cairnes 1914b; Kindle

and Burling 1914. 

Brachiopoda, Upper: Kirk 1922, 1926, 1927a;

Kirk and Amsden 1952. 

Coral, southeastern: Isbister 1855 

Coral faunas, general: Bassler 1950

Middle: Teichert 1937 

Correlation: Swartz and others 1942 

Fossil lists',Baldy ! Mountain locality[ ?]: Collier

1902.

Eagle-Circle: Mertie 1930, 1933 

Nixon Fork area: Brown 1924 

Northern: Mertie 1923, 1927; Scnrader 1904;

Smith and Mertie 1930. 

Porcupine valley: Kindle 1908a 

Seward Peninsula: Collier and others 1908; 

Mendenhall 1902; Steidtmann and Cathcart 

1922.

Southeastern: Brooks 1902a, b; Buddington

and Chapin 1929; Burchard 1913; Kindle

1907; Knopf 1912b; Willisl912;Wright and

Wright 1908.

Yukon-Tanana: Mertie 1937b; Prindle 1908,

1913a; Prindle and Hess 1906. 

Gastropoda, Upper: Kirk 1928; Knight 1941 

Graptolite faunas: Ruedemann 1947 

Lichaa fragment, southeastern: Eichwald 1871 

Niagara fauna equivalents: Kindle 1908b; Kirk

1918b; Willis 1912. 

Pelecypoda: Kirk 1927c; Prindle 1908; Shimer

and Schrock 1944; Smith and Eakin 1911. 

South-central Alaska [VI]

Carboniferous fauna, upper(7): Brooks 1900b 

Devonian and Permian fossils: Moffit 1938b 

Devonian and Permian rocks: Moffit 1941 

Middle Devonian and Carboniferous fossils:

Capps 1916. 

Mississippian fossils: Moffit 1918; Moffit and

Mertie 1923.

Mississippian and Permian fossils: Moffit 1938a 

Permian fossils: Moffit 1933; Moffit and Knopf

1910. 

Permian rocks: Mendenhall and Schrader 1903;

Moffit 1928, 1929, 1943. 

Southeastern Alaska [VIII] 

Carboniferous coral: Gushing 1895; Emerson

1904. 

Carboniferous fossils: Knopf 1912a; Reid 1896;

Spencer 1906; Wright 1904, 1906.

Questionable: Moffit 1914 

Carboniferous rocks, upper[?]: Chapin 1918 

Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods: Schucnert isso.

Devonian coral, Middle: Stevenson 1893

Devonian correlations: Cooper and others 1942 

Devonian fauna, Middle: Buddington 1923; Kirk

1927a.

Devonian fossils: Smith 1915 

Glacier Bay fossils: Gushing 1892

Graptolite fauna, Lower Ordovician: Kirkl918a

Graptolitic beds: Buddington 1923 

Lithostrotionid coral, Mississippian: Hayasaka

1936. 

Mississippian faunas: Williams 1946
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Southeastern Alaska [ Vffi] Continued

Pennsylvania^?] crinoid: Bassler and Moodey

1943; Kirk 1937a, b. 

Pennsylvanianf?] limestone at Soda Bay: Moore

and others 1944.

Permian faunas: Eakinl918a, 1919;Girty 1927 

Permian fusulinid, Kuiu Island: Dunbar 1946 

Silurian brachiopods: Kirk 1922, 1926, 1927b;

Kirk and Amsden 1952. 

Silurian coral: Isbister 1855 

Silurian correlations: Swartz and others 1942 

Silurian faunas: Burchard 1913; Kindle 1908a;

Kirk 1918b.

Silurian gastropod: Kirk 1928; Knight 1941 

Silurian pelecypod: Kirk 1927c 

Silurian and Devonian fossils: Brooks 1900a, b 

Stratigraphy and fauna! lists: Buddington and

Chapin 1929; Kindle 1907; Wright and Wright

1908.

Southwestern Alaska [IV] 

Devonian fossils: Eakin 1914; Mertie 1937a;

Mertie and Harrington 1924; Spurr and Post

1899.

Faunas, Nixon Fork area: Brown 1924 

Middle Devonian fossils: Spurr 1900 

Ordovician and Devonian fossils: Eakin 1918 

Permian fossils: Mertie 1938 

Rocks, Devonian(?): Martin 1922; Smith 1917

Ulrich, E. O.

Lower Ordovician fossils, Seward Peninsula: 

Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922.

Port Clarence limestone fossils, Seward Peninsula: Collier and others 1908.

Walcott, C. D. 

Lower Ordovician fossils, Seward Peninsula:

Steidtmann and Cathcart 1922. 

White, D.

Devonian flora, Yukon-Tanana: Spurr 1898 

Lower Mississippian flora, northern: Collier

1906; Kindle 1909; Smith and Mertie 1930. 

Nation River formation flora, Eagle-Circle:

Mertie 1930, 1937b; Prindle 1909. 

Williams, H. S.

Carboniferous coral, southeastern: Gushing

1895; Emerson 1904.

Glacier Bay fossils, southeastern: Gushing 1892 

Williams, J. Steele

Mississippian correlations: Weller and others

1948.

Pennsylvanian correlations: Moore and others 

1944.

Trilobita

Briecoia fauna, Eagle-Circle: Kobayashi 1935, 

1936b.

Cambrian zones, Upper, correlation: Howell 

and others 1944.

Cape Thompson locality, Carboniferous: Hooper 

1881.

Carboniferous, Derbyshire limestone age: Buckland 1839.

Cypftaspiaand Prootus; ShimerandSchrock 1944

Lic*as fragment, southeastern: Eichwald 1871

Ordovician and Cambrian fossils, Eagle-Circle: 

Kobayashi 1936a.

Yukon-Tanana [m]

Correlation, railroad belt: Capps 1940 

Devonian corals: Prindle and Hess 1905 

Devonian fossils, Middle: Mertie 1918 

Faunas, Ordovician: Troedsson 1929 

Silurian pelecypod, Upper: Kirk 1927c 

Stratigraphy and fossil lists: Brooks and Kindle

1908; Mertie 1937b; Prindle 1908, 1913a, b;

Prindle and Hess 1906. 

Wellesley form?Mon fossils: Brooks 1900a;

Mertie 1931.

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