Canning River (USGS Mesozoic Loc. 24014): Late Oxfordian - Early Kimmeridgian, Alaska
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Buchiidae
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Aucella spitiensis
Holdhaus 1913
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
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Belemnitida indet.
Zittel 1895
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Prionoceratidae
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Amoeboceras (Prionodoceras) sp.
Hyatt 1900
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| sgn. (Prionodoceras?) spp. juv. | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alaska |
| Coordinates: | 69.5° North, 146.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 73.4° North, 52.0° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Jurassic | *Epoch: | Malm |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Oxfordian - Early Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 157.9 - 152.2 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kingak Shale | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 50' below top of Kingak Shale. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,black lithified "shale" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" | ||
| Lithology description: black shale containing limestone concretions. | |||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | 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: | 5455 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-10-04 11:57:38 | Last modified: | 2001-08-30 17:52:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:26 |
| 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] |