Also known as USGS M4109

Where: Yukon, Canada (60.2° N, 140.6° W: paleocoordinates 65.0° N, 116.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kulthieth Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• Kulthieth Formation is part of a belt of Paleogene sedimentary and volcanic rocks that fringes the margin of the Gulf of Alaska. At the fossil locality at least 3,900 ft of the Kulthieth Formation is exposed in a homoclinal sectiuon that strikes roughly north and dips between 90 and 75 degrees. The sequence consists predominantly of uniformly bedded, light-gray to greenish-gray, hard, arkosic sandstone, pebbly sandstone, and sandy pebbly conglomerate.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green sandstone and lithified, pebbly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections held in USGS and USNM

Primary reference: W.O. Addicott and G. Plafker. 1971. Paleocene mollusks from the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province - a significant new occurrence on the North Pacific Rim. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 750(B):48-52 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41535: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004

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