USGS Mesozoic 2991, Chisik Island (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (60.1° N, 152.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 86.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chinitna Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• Chinitna formation, upper third, several hundred feet below top.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.W. Stanton in 1904; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1953. Callovian (Jurassic) ammonites from the United States and Alaska Part 2. Alaska Peninsula and Cook Inlet regions. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 249-B:41-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158656: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cadoceras (Stenocadoceras) multicostatum n. sp. Imlay 1953 ammonite
Pseudocadoceras chinitnense Imlay 1953 ammonite