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
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 | |
Chandlerichthys strickeri n. gen. n. sp.
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