south bank, Colville River, North Slope (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: North Slope County, Alaska (68.2° N, 153.4° W: paleocoordinates 76.3° N, 93.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Killik Tongue Member (Nanushuk Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• orig. part of Chandler Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; medium-grained, micaceous, gray sandstone

• "channel and splay deposits in a fluvial sandstone"
• "a gray micaceous medium-grained sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, replaced with carbon

Collected by G. Stricker in 1984; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Grande. 1986. The first articulated freshwater teleost fish from the Cretaceous of North America. Palaeontology 29(2):365-371 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84475: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.10.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Chandlerichthys strickeri n. gen. n. sp. Grande 1986
USNM 336567, 336568