USGS Mesozoic 25862, Douglas River (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Alaska (58.8° N, 153.9° W: paleocoordinates 70.5° N, 117.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• 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 A.S. Keller 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 158383: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae