USGS D12569 Talkeetna Mountains (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (63.2° N, 149.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 75.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Susitna terrane

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified volcaniclastic

• float from interbedded tuffaceous sedimentary rocks and basalt

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: N. J. Silberling, J. A. Grant-Mackie, and K. M. Nichols. 1997. The Late Triassic bivalve Monotis in accreted terranes of Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2151:1-21 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100923: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis (Monotis) alaskana, Monotis (Pacimonotis) ? subcircularis
Monotis (Monotis) alaskana Smith 1927 scallop