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Late Ordovician brachiopods from east-central Alaska, northwestern margin of Laurentia

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Jisuo Jin Open the ORCID record for Jisuo Jin [Opens in a new window]  and
Robert B. Blodgett
Jisuo Jin
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Department of Earth Science, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
Robert B. Blodgett
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Geological Consultant, Blodgett & Associates LLC, 2821 Kingfisher Drive, Anchorage, Alaska99502, USA
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Abstract

A Late Ordovician brachiopod fauna from the Black River quadrangle (D-1 1:63,360 scale) of east-central Alaska comprises taxa typical of the Late Ordovician brachiopod fauna in the pericratonic epeiric seas of Laurentia, including Hesperorthis pyramidalis (Twenhofel, 1928), Plaesiomys occidentalis (Okulitch, 1943), Eoplectodonta sp., Holtehdalina sp., Leptaena sp., Brevilamnulella minuta n. sp., Tcherskidium tenuicostatum n. sp., Rhynchotrema iowense Wang, 1949, and Whitfieldella sp. The presence of Plaesiomys occidentalis and Tcherskidium tenuicostata n. sp. indicates a latest Katian age by correlation with similar species in the Mackenzie Mountains, southern Manitoba, Anticosti Island, the American midcontinent, Kolyma, and Siberia. Cluster analysis based on 20 well-studied late Katian brachiopod faunas from various regions within Laurentia and elsewhere in other tectonic plates suggests that the small brachiopod faunule from Alaska has the strongest paleobiogeographic affinity with Laurentia, confirming that the Black River quadrangle of Alaska was part of Laurentia during the Late Ordovician.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 94 , Issue 4 , July 2020 , pp. 637 - 652
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