Barth (1956) - Garden Cove, St George (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Garden Cove, St George, Pribilof Islands

Where: Aleutians West County, Alaska (56.6° N, 169.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Sedimentary layer 10 feet thick, the bottom which is exposed at high-tide mark.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, tuffaceous, yellow sandstone

• Sand and yellow tuff with rounded pebbles of basalt.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collection made by C. Weaver in 1948 and Barth (1956); identified by F. MacNeil. Unknown repositories.

Primary reference: T.F. Barth. 1956. Geology and Petrology of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1028(F):101-160 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41301: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list is representative of molluscan faunas
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita (Cyclocardia) cf. crebricostata" = Crassicardia crebricostata
"Cardita (Cyclocardia) cf. crebricostata" = Crassicardia crebricostata Krause 1885 many-rib cyclocardia
 Carditida - Astartidae
? Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma cf. calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma cf. calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 chalky macoma
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Serripes cf. gronlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus, "Laevicardium (Cerastoderma) cf. californiense" = Clinocardium (Keenocardium) californiense
"Serripes cf. gronlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle
"Laevicardium (Cerastoderma) cf. californiense" = Clinocardium (Keenocardium) californiense Deshayes 1839 California cockle
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya cf. arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya cf. arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 soft-shelled clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Saxicava cf. arctica" = Hiatella arctica
"Saxicava cf. arctica" = Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 wrinkled rock-borer
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Colus sp. Röding 1798 true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae