Also known as USGS M7146
Where: Aleutians East County, Alaska (55.0° N, 162.8° W: paleocoordinates 56.0° N, 161.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tachilni Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Formation crops out continuously from the coast west of Cape Tachilni from Morzhovoi Bay to Flase Pass and possibly of Deer Island. Thickness of the Tachilni Fm is not known because its base is not exposed, but is estimated to be as much as 460 m thick, although not more than 250 m and any outcrop. Disconformably overlies volcaniclastic Belkofski Fm, and is unconformably overlain by Pliocene-Holocene volacanic flows and breccia.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, medium, brown, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Also collections at University of Alaska (UA), Fairbanks, Alaska
Primary reference: L. Marincovich. 1983. Molluscan paleontology, paleoecology, and North Pacific correlations of the Miocene Tachilni Formation, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska. Bulletin of American Paleontology 84(317):1-155 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37401: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Margarites (Pupillaria) sp. Dall 1909 snail | |
Naticidae indet., "Natica (Cryptonatica) cf. clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
"Natica (Cryptonatica) cf. clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail | |
Buccinum cf. planeticum true whelk
Neptunea sp. Röding 1798 true whelk
Neptunea (Neptunea) aff. modesta true whelk
Beringius hertleini true whelk | |
Oenopota cf. candida cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Yoldia (Cnesterium) scissurata" = Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica
"Yoldia (Cnesterium) scissurata" = Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica Valenciennes 1846 clam | |
"Acila (Truncacila) empirensis" = Acila (Truncacila) castrensis
"Acila (Truncacila) empirensis" = Acila (Truncacila) castrensis Hinds 1843 divaricate nutclam | |
Musculus (Musculus) niger Gray 1824 mussel | |
"Chlamys (Swiftopecten) cosibensis" = Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis
"Chlamys (Swiftopecten) cosibensis" = Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis Yokoyama 1911 scallop Subspecies: Chlamys (Swiftopecten) cosibensis cosibensis
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Glycymeris grewingki Dall 1909 clam | |
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum, Clinocardium hannibali, "Clinocardium meekianum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum, "Clinocardium cf. pristinum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) pristinum
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle
Clinocardium hannibali cockle
"Clinocardium meekianum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum Gabb 1866 cockle
"Clinocardium cf. pristinum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) pristinum Keen 1954 cockle | |
"Peronidia (Peronidia) lutea" = Tellina (Megangulus) lutea Gray 1828 tellin clam Subspecies: Peronidia aff. P. lutea alternidentata
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
Macoma (Macoma) golikovi Scarlato and Kafanov 1988 tellin clam | |
Spisula sp., "Spisula (Mactromeris) polynyma" = Mactromeris polynyma, "Spisula (Mactromeris) brevirostrata" = Mactromeris brevirostrata, "Spisula (Mactromeris) cf. albaria" = Mactromeris albaria
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam
"Spisula (Mactromeris) polynyma" = Mactromeris polynyma Stimpson 1860 clam
"Spisula (Mactromeris) brevirostrata" = Mactromeris brevirostrata Packard 1916 clam
"Spisula (Mactromeris) cf. albaria" = Mactromeris albaria Conrad 1848 clam | |
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
Mya (Arenomya) elegans Eichwald 1871 softshell clam | |
Siliqua cf. alta Broderip and Sowerby I 1829 clam | |
Panomya izumo clam | |