Where: Alaska (57.3° N, 156.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 60.0° N, 85.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kialagvik Formation, Discites (170.9 - 168.2 Ma)

• Gray siltstone, about 8 m above a massive sandstone ("probably a little lower than lot 21251")

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray siltstone

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 175623: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.12.2015

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