Also known as Loc. #9; 49ASa76
Where: North Slope County, Alaska (69.0° N, 163.1° W: paleocoordinates 79.9° N, 93.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kukpowruk Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Middle Albian in age. About 3,180 ft above base.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM collections. Collected by E.G. Sable, 1949
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1961. Characteristic lower Cretaceous megafossils from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 335 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44311: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster | |
Camptonectes dettermani Imlay 1961 scallop | |
Tancredia stelcki McLearn 1945 clam |