UCMP 3870 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Yakutat County, Alaska (60.0° N, 141.4° W: paleocoordinates 60.2° N, 133.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Poul Creek Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• referred to as Upper Oligocene Poul Formation by Clark 1932; updated to current USGS stratigraphic nomenclature of Poul Creek Fm.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: B. L. Clark. 1932. Fauna of the Poul and Yakataga Formations (Upper Oligocene) of Southern Alaska. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 43:797-846 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195966: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 01.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium (Papyridea) brooksi" = Ciliatocardium brooksi
"Cardium (Papyridea) brooksi" = Ciliatocardium brooksi Clark 1932 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Schizothaerus nuttalii" = Tresus
"Schizothaerus nuttalii" = Tresus clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Acila) hamiltonensis Clark 1932 divaricate nutclam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Argobuccinum sp. Bruguière 1792 triton shell