USGS Mesozoic 3029, Iniskin Bay (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (59.7° N, 153.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 86.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Chinitna formation, upper part of middle third.

• 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 158916: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Lilloettia buckmani Crickmay 1930 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cadoceras tenuicostatum n. sp. Imlay 1953 ammonite
"Pseudocadoceras grewingki" = Cadoceras (Pseudocadoceras) grewingki Pompeckj 1900 ammonite
"Cadoceras catostoma" = Cadoceras (Pseudocadoceras) catostoma Pompeckj 1900 ammonite
Cadoceras comma Imlay 1953 ammonite
Cadoceras wosnessenskii Grewingk 1850 ammonite
Cadoceras glabrum Imlay 1953 ammonite
Cadoceras doroschini Eichwald 1871 ammonite
Cadoceras bathomphalum Imlay 1953 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Oppelia (Oxycerites) chinitnana n. sp. Imlay 1953 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae