Trinity Islands (M7334) (Miocene to of the United States)

Also known as USGS M7334

Where: Kodiak County, Alaska (56.5° N, 154.3° W: paleocoordinates 57.8° N, 150.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Narrrow Cape Formaton Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Unknown stratigraphic position within Narrow Cape Formation. Late Oligocene or early Miocene age. Overlies Early Oligocene Sitkinak Formation. Total thickness of formation about 210 m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, concretionary, pebbly siltstone

• Mainly siltstone with some beds containing scattered pebbles and cobbles, and scattered to locally abundant calcareous concretions. Occasional thin beds of very fine sandstone. Megafossils throughouty siltstone and commonly in concretions.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections housed in USGS, Menlo Park; University of Alaska, and USNM

Primary reference: R. C. Allison and L. Marincovich. 1981. A late Oligocene or earliest Miocene molluscan fauna from Sitkinak Island, Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1233:1-11 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37664: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Representative of mollusca; foraminifera listed in reference for some localities but are not entered.
Bivalvia
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
? Periploma sp. Schumacher 1816 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (? Arenomya) grewingki Makiyama 1934 softshell clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Musashia (Musashia) sp. Hayashi 1966 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Epitonium (Nitidiscala) sp. de Boury 1909 wentletrap