Trinity Islands (A1156) (Miocene to of the United States)

Also known as University of Alaska A-1156

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 37670: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Representative of mollusca; foraminifera listed in reference for some localities but are not entered.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
Macoma cf. optiva tellin clam
"Macoma cf. moesta" = Macoma (Macoma) moesta Deshayes 1855 tellin clam
Subspecies: Macoma (Macoma) cf. moesta alaskana
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis Regan 1909 divaricate nutclam