Point Pybus, Admiralty Island (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Alaska (57.3° N, 134.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.W. Wright

Primary reference: A. F. Buddington and T. Chapin. 1929. Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 800:1-398 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 112311: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 08.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by T.W. Stanton.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Aucella cf. piochii" = Buchia piochii
"Aucella cf. piochii" = Buchia piochii Gabb 1864 scallop