CAS 29014, Wide Bay (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (57.3° N, 156.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 87.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kialagvik Formation, Discites (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• Black shale "just above contact of Kialagvik with Shelikof Fm"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• Dark sandstone with basaltic dike

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

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 175625: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Otoitidae
Docidoceras (Pseudocidoceras) paucinodosum n. sp. Westermann 1969 ammonite