The Terrane Puzzle: New Perspectives on Paleontology and Stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera

The flora, fauna, and sediments of the Mount Dall Conglomerate (Farewell Terrane, Alaska, USA)
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Published:July 01, 2008
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David Sunderlin, 2008. "The flora, fauna, and sediments of the Mount Dall Conglomerate (Farewell Terrane, Alaska, USA)", The Terrane Puzzle: New Perspectives on Paleontology and Stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera, Robert B. Blodgett, George D. Stanley, Jr.
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New collections of floral and faunal remains were recovered from late Paleozoic sediments of the Mount Dall conglomerate in the Alaska Range of south-central Alaska. This isolated unit's type section is ∼1500 m thick and comprises thick to very thick conglomerate beds with interbedded sandstones and siltstones in a series of fining-upward intervals each tens of meters thick. The unit is interpreted to be a coastal braidplain deposit of Early Permian age in the upper Farewell terrane (Mystic subterrane sequence). Genus-level taxonomic composition of paleobotanical collections from lenticular mudstones to siltstones is discussed with regard to taphonomy and the interpreted...
- Alaska
- Alaska Range
- biogeography
- Brachiopoda
- clastic rocks
- coastal environment
- communities
- conglomerate
- Cordaitales
- Cordaites
- depositional environment
- Filicopsida
- Gymnospermae
- Invertebrata
- Lower Permian
- paleoclimatology
- paleoecology
- Paleozoic
- Pecopteris
- Permian
- Plantae
- Pteridophyta
- rhizoliths
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentary structures
- Southern Alaska
- Spermatophyta
- taphonomy
- terranes
- United States
- south-central Alaska
- Cyclopteris
- Rufloria
- Zamiopteris
- Angaropteridium
- Farewell Terrane
- Mount Dall Conglomerate