Also known as Loc. #3; 49ACh115
Where: North Slope County, Alaska (69.3° N, 162.6° W: paleocoordinates 80.0° N, 92.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kukpowruk Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Middle Albian in age. About 800 ft above base.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM collections. Collected by R.M. Chapman, 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 44327: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star | |
Bivalvia | |
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop | |
Entolium utukokense n. sp.
Entolium utukokense n. sp. Imlay 1961 scallop | |
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam | |
? Arctica sp. Schumacher 1817 clam | |
? Flaventia kukpowrukensis n. sp.
? Flaventia kukpowrukensis n. sp. Imlay 1961 venus clam | |
"? Panope kissoumi" = Panopea
"? Panope kissoumi" = Panopea clam |