Where: Southeast Fairbanks County, Alaska (65.1° N, 141.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 58.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous shale and lithified limestone
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 85134: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Himavatites cf. multiauritis ceratite
Neohimavatites cf. canadensis McLearn 1940 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
Monotis (Eomonotis) daonellaeformis Kiparisova 1960 scallop
Monotis (Eomonotis) ? pinensis Westermann 1962 scallop | |
Halobia fallax Mojsisovics 1874 oyster |