Katmai National Park (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Alaska (58.5° N, 155.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 92.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Snug Harbor Siltstone Member (Naknek Formation), Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; fine-grained, conglomeratic, carbonaceous sandstone

• prograding delta complex
• "fine to conglomeratic sandstone" with hummocky bedding and plant debris

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. R. Fiorillo. 2006. Review of the dinosaur record of Alaska with comments regarding Korean dinosaurs as comparable high-latitude fossil faunas. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22(1):15-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 72381: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
carbonized leaf and wood debris
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
bone cobble