USGS Mesozoic 25327, Talkeetna Mountains (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Alaska (62.0° N, 147.6° W: paleocoordinates 70.2° N, 103.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pachydiscus kamishakensis ammonoid zone, 3 Member (Matanuska Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Upper part of member 3 of 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 A. Grantz in 1954; 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 158296: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Patagiosites alaskensis Jones 1963 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Gaudryceras tenuiliratum Yabe 1903 ammonite