Beaver Bay (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Alaska (55.5° N, 160.9° W: paleocoordinates 57.1° N, 157.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Unga Conglomerate Member (Bear Lake Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: L. L. Jacobs, A. R. Fiorillo, Y. Nishida and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2009. Mid-Cenozoic marine mammals from Alaska. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65:171-184 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97625: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla -
Desmostylia indet. Reinhart 1953 desmostylian