Where: Alaska (62.0° N, 147.7° W: paleocoordinates 70.2° N, 103.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pachydiscus kamishakensis ammonoid zone, Matanuska Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Upper part of member 3 of Matanuska formation. Late Campanian or Maestrichtian. Pachydiscus kamishakensis zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Grantz, D.L. Jones in 1959; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: D. L. Jones. 1963. Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 432:1-53 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64020: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 29.08.2006

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