Hamilton Bay, Kupreanof Island - 8841 (15) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (56.9° N, 133.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 71.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.M. Overbeck in 1914

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 112264: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 07.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by T.W. Stanton.
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
? Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
? Trachyceras sp. Laube 1869 ceratite