USGS Mesozoic 21359, Wide Bay (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (57.4° N, 156.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 90.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Gray siltstone 20 to 40 ft below the first prominent sandstone bed at this place and about 1,000 ft above the base of the Shelikof formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.W. Imlay, D.J. Miller in 1948; 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 158949: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Lilloettia stantoni Imlay 1953 ammonite
Lilloettia buckmani Crickmay 1930 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
"Cadoceras catostoma" = Cadoceras (Pseudocadoceras) catostoma Pompeckj 1900 ammonite
Cadoceras wosnessenskii Grewingk 1850 ammonite