Bluffs between Homer and Fritz Creek (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Alaska (59.7° N, 151.4° W: paleocoordinates 60.1° N, 149.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kenai Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• assigned probable late Miocene age based on Homerian flora by Wolfe 1966

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Charles Rainwater in 1964

Primary reference: T. Cavender. 1969. An Oligocene mudminnow (Family Umbridae) from Oregon with remarks on relationships within the Esocoidei. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (660)1-36 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222669: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 11.10.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Esociformes - Umbridae
Dallia sp. Bean 1880 blackfish