Alaska Paleontological Database

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Sample:	Sample No. 210 -- USGS No. USNM loc. 2310
Locality:	Field No. 210
Description:	vicinity of Sitka [Hollick, 1936, p. 54 states: "This generic identification, without description or illustration, was based, according to Lesquereux, one specimen (lot 210, U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 2310) collected by E. W. Nelson at Sitka; but Knowlton as remarked as follows in regard to it: "I am informed by Mr. Nelson that he never visited Sitka and did not bring back any fossil plants from Alaska. This throws doubt on the specimens so recorded, and their locality and collector remain unknown."
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Sitka Lat.: 57^o30^'5 ^" Long.: 135^o19^'47 ^"

Reference

Title:	The Tertiary Floras of Alaska, with a chapter on The Geology of the Tertiary Deposits by P.S. Smith. , 1936

Report by:	Arthur Hollick


Age:	Tertiary
Formation:	Unnamed





Comment:	Hollick 1936 p. 54 writes: " "I am informed by Mr. Nelson that he never visited Sitka and did not bring back any fossil plants from Alaska. This throws doubt on the specimens so recorded, and their locality and collector remain unknown." On p. 44 Hollick writes: "This species was identified by Lesquereux in a collection made in the vicinity of Sitka by E. W. Nelson (U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 2300 lot 210) and by Knowlton among specimens collected at Herendeen Bay by C. H. Townsend (lot 539)." crude lat/long estimate^o 03'05", 135^o 19'47".

Occurrence(s)
No.	Group		Name	Qty	Notes
1	Plants		Gingko adiantoides (Unger) Heer
2	Plants		Sagittaria sp.Lesquereux
3	Plants		Carex sp.(leaves) Lesquereux