Where: Alaska (55.6° N, 160.7° W: paleocoordinates 70.6° N, 130.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inoceramus schmidti inoceramid zone, Chignik Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Chignik Formation. Campanian. Inoceramus schmidti zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.W. Atwood in 1908; 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 158365: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2014

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