northwest side of Tugidak Island (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Alaska (56.5° N, 154.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.7° N, 154.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. S. MacNeil. 1967. Cenozoic Pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and Other Northern Regions. Geological survey professional paper [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187020: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Leochlamys) tugidakensis, "Chlamys (Chlamys) rubida" = Chlamys rubida, "Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. picoensis" = Chlamys rubida, Chlamys (Chlamys) trinitiensis, "Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. hanaishiensis" = Chlamys (Chlamys) albida, Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. cosibensis
"Chlamys (Chlamys) rubida" = Chlamys rubida Hinds 1845 scallop
Subspecies "Chlamys (Chlamys) rubida prerubida"
"Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. picoensis" = Chlamys rubida Hinds 1845 scallop
Subspecies "Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. picoensis chinkopensis"
Chlamys (Chlamys) trinitiensis MacNeil 1967 scallop
"Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. hanaishiensis" = Chlamys (Chlamys) albida Arnold 1906 scallop
Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. cosibensis Yokoyama 1911 scallop