USGS Mesozoic 24959, Kamishak Hills (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Alaska (59.0° N, 153.9° W: paleocoordinates 70.6° N, 116.8° 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 sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.E. Kirschner, J.E. Heppert in 1953; 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 158373: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae