Where: Aleutians East County, Alaska (55.2° N, 160.2° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 154.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• middle Oligocene
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections examined by F.S. MacNeil and D. Taylor (USGS), 1962. Collections are reposited at USGS Menlo Park, or presumably USNM (not reported)
Primary reference: F. S. MacNeil. 1967. Cenozoic Pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and Other Northern Regions. Geological survey professional paper [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187107: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Vertipecten popofensis MacNeil 1967 scallop |