Where: Alaska (58.6° N, 153.9° W: paleocoordinates 70.3° N, 117.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pachydiscus kamishakensis ammonoid zone, Kaguyak Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Late Campanian or Maestrichtian. Pachydiscus kamishakensis zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G.C. Martin in 1904; 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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 158372: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus ex gr. subundatus Meek 1861 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Pachydiscus sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite |