Permian Tethyan Fusulinina from the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

• 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

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.