Adak Island loc. 2 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Alaska (52.0° N, 176.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 176.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Narizian foram zone, Andrew Lake Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• about 350 meters above the formation's base; age based on foram assemblages

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• "turbidite deposition in a marine basin"
• siliceous shale and calcareous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. W. Scholl, H. G. Greene, and M. S. Marlow. 1970. Eocene age of the Adak 'Paleozoic (?)' Rocks, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Geological Society America Bulletin 81(12):3583-3592 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189957: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.11.2017

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Taxonomic list

• sponge spicules noted in text
unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gyroidina cf. orbicularis d'Orbigny 1865
ssp. planata
Foraminifera
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Plectofrondiculariidae
Plectofrondicularia cf. packardi Cushman and Schenck 1928
ssp. packardi and multilineata
 Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
Siphonodosaria sp. Silvestri 1924
Actinopteri
 Polymixiiformes - Polymixiidae
Parapolymixia cf. californica David 1946 beardfish
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
? Delectopecten sp. Stewart 1930 scallop