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Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks, barnacle
Quadrangle or area: Meade River, Wainwright & Barrow, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-77-37M
Referred by: Williams, John R.
Report prepared by: Marincovich, Louie , Jr.
Date: 02/23/1978

This report deals with 22 collections of megainvertebrates from localities in the Gubik Formation on the western North Slope region of Alaska.

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77-AW1-77-1 (Cenozoic loc. M7167) , Meade River , Float specimens; NW1/4 NE1/4 Section 2, T. 17 N., R. 23 W., Meade River (D-4) Quadrangle; Latitude 70 degs. 51.70 min. N; Longitude 157 degs. 50.34 min. W.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Macoma brota Dall
Oenopota sp.
77-AW1-91-2 (Cenozoic loc. M7168) , Meade River , In-place specimens from Kunarak Creek, 2 to 7 feet below top of lower black silt and peaty unit; NW1/4 NW1/4 Section 20, T. 17 N., R. 23 W., Meade River (D-4) Quadrangle; Latitude 70 degs. 49.00 min. N; Longitude 157 degs. 59.24 min. W.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Astarte cf. A. leffingwelli Dall
Astarte sp.
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Spisula voyi (Gabb)
Macoma brota Dall
Admete couthouyi (Jay)
Buccinum cf. B. tenellum Dall
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Natica (Tectonatica) janthostoma Deshayes
Polinices (Euspira) pallidus (Broderip & Sowerby)
77-AW1-91-3 (Cenozoic loc. M7168A) , Meade River , Same locality as M7168, above, but float specimens collected in creek upstream.
Macoma brota Dall
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Astarte leffingwelli Dall
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Spisula voyi (Gabb)
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Natica (Tectonatica) janthostoma Deshayes
Littorina sp.
77-AW1-92 (Cenozoic loc. M7169) , Meade River , Sample from less than 4-inch shell zone with sand at base of Gubik Formation, center NE-1/4 Section 15, T. 18 N., R. 22 W., Meade River (D-3) Quadrangle; Latitude 70 degs. 55.00 min. N; Longitude 157 degs. 36.97 min. W.
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Neptunea (Neptunea) cf. N. (N.) heros heros (Gray)
77-AW1-92-1 (Cenozoic loc. M7169A) , Meade River , From basal Gubik Formation at locality cited above, M7169.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
?Plicifusus sp.
77-AW1-132-1 (Cenozoic loc. M7170) , Meade River , Coastal bluff at draw (gully), Skull Cliff; locality north of draw, shell zone in sand and organics at about 20 feet from top; NE1/4 SE 1/4 Section 1, T. 18 N., R. 22 W., Meade River (D-3) Quadrangle; Latitude 70 degs. 56.47 min. N; Longitude 157 degs. 31.71 min. W.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Macoma brota Dall
Epitonium greenlandicum Perry
Oenopota sp.
77-AW1-132-2 (Cenozoic loc. M7170A) , Meade River , Same general locality as M7170, above, but south of draw and 2 to 4 feet above base of 5-25 foot fine brown sand unit.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Macoma sp.
Epitonium greenlandicum Perry
Neptunea (Neptunea) lyrata (Gmelin) subspecies
Colus spitzbergensis (Reeve)
77-AW1-140-1 (Cenozoic loc. M7171) , Meade River , Skull Cliff; float fossils from base of bluff. No other geographic location data provided.
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Macoma brota Dall
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Buccinum cf. B. tenellum Dall
Neptunea sp.
77-AW1-140-2 (Cenozoic loc. M7171A) , Meade River , Same general locality as M7171, above, but specimens from talus near upper part of contorted sand and silt bed.
Clinocardium ciliatum (Fabricius)
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Macoma brota Dall
Buccinum tenellum (Dall)
Natica (Cryptonatica) cf. N. (C.) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
77-AW1-140-3 (Cenozoic loc. M7171B) , Meade River , Same general locality as M7171 and M7171A, above, but specimens are float washed from contorted sand and silt underlying silt unit, with Neptunea-like shells preferentially collected.
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Neptunea (Neptunea) heros heros (Gray)
Buccinum angulosum Gray
Buccinum cf. B. tenellum Dall