Port Graham, Kenai Peninsula (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (59.3° N, 151.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 79.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Peninsular Terrane

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• black limestone

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 100925: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia dilatata Kittl 1912 oyster
Halobia lineata Muenster 1833 oyster
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Steinmannitidae
Steinmannites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite