Lupine River (USGS Mes. loc. 22766): Kimmeridgian, Alaska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucella concentrica White 1888
Aucella mosquensis White 1885
synonym of Buchia piochii
Aucella rugosa (Fischer 1837)
original and current combination Buchia rugosa
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alaska
Coordinates: 68.9° North, 148.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:74.5° North, 52.6° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Middle Kimmeridgian
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tiglukpuk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ~500' above base of Kingak Shale.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,sideritic lithified argillaceous,silty "shale"
Lithology description: fissile clay to silt shale containing spheroidal concretions and sideritic lenses.
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: "[These sediments] were deposited in an eastward-trending trough about 150 mi wide...the trough was bounded on the S by a rising landmass from which most of the sediments were derived. It was bounded on the N by the Barrow Platform..."

[ergo, foreland basin]

Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Database number:5221
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-09-02 17:11:31 Last modified:2001-08-30 17:52:51
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

313. R. W. Imlay. 1955. Characteristic Jurassic Mollusks from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-D:69-96 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]