USGS Loc. M1330, Canyon Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Valdez-Cordova County, Alaska (61.1° N, 142.2° W: paleocoordinates 57.8° N, 85.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, informally referred to as Unit K1. AGE: Latest Albian (or Cenomanian age), on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From uppermost beds within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but likely siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Pesumed lithified, on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but likely USNM.

Primary reference: D. L. Jones and H. C. Berg. 1964. Cretaceous stratigraphy of the McCarthy A-4 Quadrangle, southern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1180(A):1-18 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88620: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with mostly species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Marshallites sp.
Marshallites sp. Matsumoto 1955 ammonite