Where: Alaska (69.5° N, 146.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 32.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• "presumably of Karnic age"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E.K. Leffingwell; reposited in the USNM
• Collected by Anglo-American Expedition
Primary reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33432: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 29.07.2003, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Cladiscites mendenhalli n. sp." = Sphaerocladiscites mendenhalli
"Cladiscites mendenhalli n. sp." = Sphaerocladiscites mendenhalli Smith 1927 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster | |
Halobia cf. superba Mojsisovics 1874 oyster |