M1215 - Northeast Creek section (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as M1215

Where: Aleutians East County, Alaska (56.1° N, 157.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 96.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Staniukovich Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• There are numerous good exposures of the Jurassic sequence in the Main Creek anticline, but much of the structure is complicated by faults and subsidary folds. The Staniukovich Formation is around 500 ft thick in this section and comprises siltstone and sandstone. The collection is from about midway up this unit. Portlandian in age = Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, gray, green, yellow siltstone and brown, gray, green, yellow sandstone

• No paleoenvironmental data reported.
• Siltstone and sandstone, green-gray, weathering tan to yellow-brown, slightly feldspathic, well-bedded.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections examined by D. Jones (USGS), 1962. Collections are reposited at USGS Menlo Park, or presumably USNM (not reported)

Primary reference: C.A. Burk. 1965. Geology of the Alaska Peninsula-island arc and continental margin (Part 1). Geological Society of America Memoir 99(1) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44074: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Some other fossils mentioned, but not named.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia piochii
Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop