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 | |
"Cardium (Papyridea) brooksi" = Ciliatocardium brooksi
"Cardium (Papyridea) brooksi" = Ciliatocardium brooksi Clark 1932 cockle | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
"Schizothaerus nuttalii" = Tresus
"Schizothaerus nuttalii" = Tresus clam | |
Nucula (Acila) hamiltonensis Clark 1932 divaricate nutclam | |
Gastropoda | |
Neptunea aff. tabulatus true whelk | |
Argobuccinum sp. Bruguière 1792 triton shell |