Where: North Slope County, Alaska (68.3° N, 165.6° W: paleocoordinates 60.2° N, 42.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otuk Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Otuk = "Shublik" Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: N. J. Silberling, J. A. Grant-Mackie, and K. M. Nichols. 1997. The Late Triassic bivalve Monotis in accreted terranes of Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2151:1-21 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85131: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.12.2008

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