Poul Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Yakutat County, Alaska (60.0° N, 141.9° W: paleocoordinates 60.2° N, 133.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Poul Creek Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Upper Oligocene

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Maddren in 1913; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169279: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 14.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia alaskensis Schenck 1931 nautiloid