Where: Alaska (62.0° N, 146.8° W: paleocoordinates 69.9° N, 103.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pachydiscus kamishakensis ammonoid zone, Matanuska Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Matanuska formation, Late Campanian or Maestrichtian. Pachydiscus kamishakensis zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.R. Williams in 1952; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: D. L. Jones. 1963. Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 432:1-53 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 158241: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus ex gr. subundatus Meek 1861 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) kamishakensis Jones 1963 ammonite |