Permian Tethyan Fusulinina from the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Two samples from a large, allochthonous limestone block in the McHugh Complex of the Chugach terrane on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, contain species of 12 genera of Permian Fusulinina including Abadehella, Kahlerina, Pseudokahlerina ?, Nankinella, Codonofusiella, Dunbarula, Parafusulina ?, Chusenell...

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Published in:Journal of Paleontology
Main Authors: Stevens, Calvin H., Davydov, Vladimir I., Bradley, Dwight
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1997
Subjects:
Paleontology
Alaska
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000035964
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022336000035964
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Summary:Two samples from a large, allochthonous limestone block in the McHugh Complex of the Chugach terrane on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, contain species of 12 genera of Permian Fusulinina including Abadehella, Kahlerina, Pseudokahlerina ?, Nankinella, Codonofusiella, Dunbarula, Parafusulina ?, Chusenella, Verbeekina, Pseudodoliolina, Metadoliolina ?, Sumatrina ?, and Yabeina, as well as several other foraminiferans and one alga. The assemblage of fusulinids is characteristically Tethyan, belonging to the Yabeina archaica zone of early Midian (late Wordian) age. Similar faunas are known from the Pamirs, Transcaucasia, and Japan, as well as from allochthonous terranes in British Columbia, northwestern Washington, and Koryakia in eastern Siberia.

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