Southwest coast of Bostwick Inlet, Gravina Island - 16933 (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as 34AK435

Where: Alaska (55.2° N, 131.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° N, 74.1° W)

When: Jurassic (201.4 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Koschmann in 1934

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: H. C. Berg and E. L. Cruz. 1982. Map and table describing fossil collections and related samples in the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert Quadrangles, southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-1088 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 112406: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 11.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by J.B. Reeside and C.A. Cooper
unclassified
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Arctica sp. Schumacher 1817 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster
small form
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria (Oxtoma) sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. expansa Hyatt 1892 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima spp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
? Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
? Amusium sp. Röding 1798 scallop
"Vola sp." = Pecten (Vola) Klein 1753 scallop
? Tosapecten sp. Kobayashi and Ichikawa 1949 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
""Terebratula" (cf. Ptyctothyris) stephani" = Ptychtothyris stephani
""Terebratula" (cf. Ptyctothyris) stephani" = Ptychtothyris stephani Davidson 1877