Also known as Loc. #5; 49ACh108
Where: North Slope County, Alaska (69.3° N, 162.7° W: paleocoordinates 80.0° N, 92.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kukpowruk Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Middle Albian in age. About 1,100 ft above base.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM collections. Collected by R.M. Chapman, 1949
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1961. Characteristic lower Cretaceous megafossils from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 335 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44321: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Solecurtus chapmani n. sp.
? Solecurtus chapmani n. sp. Imlay 1961 clam | |
Tancredia kurupana n. sp.
Tancredia kurupana n. sp. Imlay 1961 clam | |
? Arctica sp. Schumacher 1817 clam | |
"? Panope sp." = Panopea
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