USGS Cenozoic M8062, Pavlov Bay (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP IP23654

Where: Aleutians East County, Alaska (55.5° N, 161.4° W: paleocoordinates 61.5° N, 152.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Tolstoi Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• “Late middle Eocene”

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and sandstone

• “...dominant Tolstoi lithologies are dark-colored siltstones with interbedded volcaniclastic sandstones and conglomerates, volcanic breccia, flows and sills ...”

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: L. Marincovich. 1988. Late middle Eocene mollusks of the Tolstoi Formation, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska, and correlations with faunas from California to the Far-eastern U.S.S.R. In M. V. Filewicz and R.L. Squires (eds.), SEPM West Coast Paleogene Symposium 58:265-281 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194397: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 19.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
? Tellina sp.
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
? Corbicula sp.
? Corbicula sp. Megerle 1811 clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sp.
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis
Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis Weaver and Palmer 1922 mussel