USGS M1714, 1715, 1716 Trout Creek (Triassic of the United States)

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

• black papery calcareous shale, lenticular gray-brown 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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tibetitidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis (Eomonotis) daonellaeformis Kiparisova 1960 scallop
Monotis (Eomonotis) ? pinensis Westermann 1962 scallop
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia fallax Mojsisovics 1874 oyster