Where: Aleutians East County, Alaska (56.0° N, 160.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.8° N, 158.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bear lake Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, silty sandstone and shelly/skeletal conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections examined by F.S. MacNeil and D. Taylor (USGS), 1962. Collections are reposited at USGS Menlo Park, or presumably USNM (not reported)
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 97626: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Desmostylia indet. Reinhart 1953 desmostylian | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 |