USGS 24477 - Kukpowruk River, North Slope (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Loc. #9; 49ASa65

Where: North Slope County, Alaska (68.9° N, 163.1° W: paleocoordinates 79.8° N, 94.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Torok Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Lower Albian in age. Upper 300 ft.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siltstone and shale

• Shallow water, siliciclastic paleoenvironment; during rapid sea-level rise
• Soft silt, shale, and clay.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM collections. Collected by E.G. Sable, 1949

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1961. Characteristic lower Cretaceous megafossils from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 335 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44312: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.09.2004

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Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
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"? Panope kissoumi" = Panopea clam
= Panopea ?