USGS Mesozoic 21251, Wide Bay (Jurassic of the United States)

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
 Ammonitida - Sonniniidae
Sonninia (Euhoploceras) bifurcata Westermann 1969 ammonite
Witchellia sutneroides n. sp. Westermann 1969 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras aff. eudesianum d'Orbigny 1846 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Otoitidae
"Pseudotoites cf. transatlanticus" = Pseudotoites (Pseudotoites) transatlanticus Tornquist 1898 ammonite
Docidoceras (Pseudocidoceras) camachoi Westermann 1969 ammonite
Docidoceras (Pseudocidoceras) widebayense n. sp. Westermann 1969 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae
Planammatoceras (Pseudammatoceras) aff. benneri, "Eudmetoceras aff. eudmetum" = Eudmetoceras (Eudmetoceras) eudmetum, "Eudmetoceras (Euaptetoceras) klimakomphalum" = Pseudaptetoceras klimakomphalum
"Eudmetoceras aff. eudmetum" = Eudmetoceras (Eudmetoceras) eudmetum Buckman 1920 ammonite
"Eudmetoceras (Euaptetoceras) klimakomphalum" = Pseudaptetoceras klimakomphalum Vacek 1886 ammonite
ssp. discoidale
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
"Bisiphytes (Cenoceras) imlayi n. sp." = Cenoceras imlayi
"Bisiphytes (Cenoceras) imlayi n. sp." = Cenoceras imlayi Kummel 1954