Where: Alaska (69.1° N, 155.3° W: paleocoordinates 77.4° N, 93.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Niakogon Tongue Member (Nanushuk Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• orig. part of Chandler Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; ironstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected in 1986
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: J. M. Parrish, J. T. Parrish, J. H. Hutchison and R. A. Spicer. 1987. Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the North Slope of Alaska and implications for dinosaur ecology. Palaios 2:377-389 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 62635: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.07.2006, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam numerous specimens of "freshwater clams"; one tooth-marked specimen
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Reptilia | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle |