Canning River (USGS Mes. loc. 21024) (Jurassic of the United States)
Where: Alaska (69.0° N, 146.0° W: paleocoordinates 71.2° N, 51.8° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kingak Shale Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale and ironstone
• "[These sediments] were deposited in an eastward-trending trough about 150 mi wide...the trough was bounded on the S by a rising landmass from which most of the sediments were derived. It was bounded on the N by the Barrow Platform..."
[ergo, foreland basin]
• black shale containing ironstone beds.
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1955. Characteristic Jurassic Mollusks from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-D:69-96 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5234: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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"Reineckeia (Reineckites) cf. stuebeli" = Reineckeites stuebeli
"Reineckeia (Reineckites) cf. stuebeli" = Reineckeites stuebeli Steinmann 1881 ammonite sgn. (Reineckites)
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