Where: Alaska (57.3° N, 156.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 87.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kialagvik Formation, Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)
• About 150 m below top of Kialagvik Fm
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Ralph W. Imlay, Don J. Miller in 1948; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. E. G. Westermann. 1969. The ammonite fauna of the Kialagvik Formation at Wide Bay, Alaska Peninsula. Part II. Sonninia sowerbyi zone (Bajocian). Bulletins of American Paleontology 57:1-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175622: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Sonninia (Euhoploceras) bifurcata Westermann 1969 ammonite
Witchellia sutneroides n. sp. Westermann 1969 ammonite | |
Lytoceras aff. eudesianum d'Orbigny 1846 ammonite | |
"Pseudotoites cf. transatlanticus" = Pseudotoites (Pseudotoites) transatlanticus, Docidoceras (Pseudocidoceras) camachoi, Docidoceras (Pseudocidoceras) widebayense n. sp.
"Pseudotoites cf. transatlanticus" = Pseudotoites (Pseudotoites) transatlanticus Tornquist 1898 ammonite
Docidoceras (Pseudocidoceras) camachoi Westermann 1969 ammonite
Docidoceras (Pseudocidoceras) widebayense n. sp. Westermann 1969 ammonite | |
Planammatoceras (Pseudammatoceras) aff. benneri, "Eudmetoceras aff. eudmetum" = Eudmetoceras (Eudmetoceras) eudmetum, "Eudmetoceras (Euaptetoceras) klimakomphalum" = Pseudaptetoceras klimakomphalum
Planammatoceras (Pseudammatoceras) aff. benneri Hoffman 1913 ammonite
"Eudmetoceras aff. eudmetum" = Eudmetoceras (Eudmetoceras) eudmetum Buckman 1920 ammonite
"Eudmetoceras (Euaptetoceras) klimakomphalum" = Pseudaptetoceras klimakomphalum Vacek 1886 ammonite ssp. discoidale
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"Bisiphytes (Cenoceras) imlayi n. sp." = Cenoceras imlayi
"Bisiphytes (Cenoceras) imlayi n. sp." = Cenoceras imlayi Kummel 1954 |