Alaska Paleontological Database

Reference Detail

Report on Referred Fossils

Stratigraphic range:

Eocene or Oligocene to Miocene

Kinds of fossils:

Mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, plants

Quadrangle or area:

Port Moller (C-2, D-1, D-2), Stepovak Bay (D-6) quadrangles, Alaska

Shipment No.:

A-87-17M

Referred by:

Wilson, Frederic H.

Report prepared by:

Marincovich, Louie , Jr.

Date:

07/24/1987

This report deals with nine collections of megafossils from the Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska, that were collected during the 1986 field season.

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86ADt374 (Cenozoic loc. M9125) , Port Moller

Spisula? sp.

Genus indeterminate - fragments

86ADt381 (Cenozoic loc. M9126) , Port Moller

Ostrea tigiliana

86AWs400??? (Cenozoic loc. M9127) , Port Moller , Field locality ????. There is no field number or formation assignment with sample. Ric Wilson (memo of 6/30/87) suspects that this is field locality 86AWs400, which is in the Port Moller D-1 quadrangle, lat. 55 deg. 48'00", long. 160 deg. 18'48"W., and which is in the Bear Lake Formation.

Mytilus (Plicatomytilus) gratacapi

86AGs19 (Cenozoic loc. M9128) , Port Moller

Plants: fragments

82AWs39 (recollection 1986) (Cenozoic loc. M9129) , Port Moller , Bear Lake or Stepovak Formation. Note the 1982 field number; presumably this sample is a 1986 recollection of 1982 locality.

Ostrea sp.

Periploma (Aelga) besshoense?

86AWs356 (Cenozoic loc. M9130) , Port Moller , Same locality data as M9129, above. Bear Lake or Stepovak Formation.

Spisula polynyma?

Indeterminate genus

sand dollar fragment

86AWs379 (Cenozoic loc. M9131) , Stepovak Bay , Bear Lake Formation?

Epitonium cf. E. atwoodi

crab carapace fragments

86AWs394 (Cenozoic loc. M9132) , Port Moller , This is a recollection of 84AM11 (USGS Cenozoic loc. M8450), which was first assigned to the Bear Lake Formation by Jim Case in 1984.

Ostrea cf. O. tigiliana

86ADt406 (Cenozoic loc. M9133) , Port Moller

Acila species

Crepidula species