Shell L546, 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 15 m below top of Kialagvik Fm

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale

• Interbedded dark grey blocky concretionary shale and thin stringers of grey weathering limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 175626: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Otoitidae
"Docidoceras (Trilobiticeras) sp." = Trilobiticeras
"Docidoceras (Trilobiticeras) sp." = Trilobiticeras Buckman 1919 ammonite