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Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene and Holocene
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks
Quadrangle or area: See below, Arctic Coast, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-80-31M
Referred by: Hopkins, David M.
Report prepared by: Marincovich, Louie , Jr. , Russell, Dale
Date: 06/18/1981

This report deals with 13 collections of Pleistocene and Holocene megafossils from the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Collections were made for project number 9310-01526.

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80ANr14a (Cenozoic loc. M7836) , Barter Island , Modern beach shells from Barter Island (A-5) quadrangle, at 70 deg., 06 min., 45 sec. N., 143 deg., 36 min. W.
Portlandia sp. indet. - juveniles
80AHz25 (Cenozoic loc. M7837) , Demarcation Point , Modern beach shells from Hulahula River delta, Demarcation Point (D-3) quadrangle, at 69 deg., 59 min., 15 sec. N., 142 deg., 33 min., 30 sec. W.
Musculus (Musculus) niger (Gray)
Margarites costalis (Gould)
80ANr33d (Cenozoic loc. M7838) , Barter Island , Collection from Flaxman Formation, Barter Island (A-3) quadrangle, at 70 deg., 00 min., 30 sec. N., 142 deg., 36 min., 40 sec. W.
Astarte sp. - fragments
Cyrtodaria kurriana (Dunker)
Portlandia (Portlandia) cf. P.(P.) arctica (Gray)
80AHp35 (Cenozoic loc. M7839) , Flaxman Island , Modern beach shells from Flaxman Islands (A-3) quadrangle, at 70 deg., 01 min., 50 sec. N., 145 deg., 10 min., 30 sec. W.
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)
Portlandia sp. - juveniles
Musculus (Musculus) discors (Linnaeus)
Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin)
80AHp56a1/2 (Cenozoic loc. M7840) , Mt Michelson , Pleistocene locality in Mt. Michelson (D-2) quadrangle, at 70 deg., 57 min., 30 sec. N., 144 deg., 43 min. W. Thought to be mid to late Pleistocene by field geologists. [Note by R.B. Blodgett: the given latitude of 70 degrees is obviously wrong (plots out far to the north in the Beaufort Sea), obviously what was meant was 69 degrees]
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus
Mya sp. - fragments
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus)
80AHp56a2/2 (Cenozoic loc. M7841) , Mt Michelson , Same locality as above, M7840.
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus)
Cyrtodaria kurriana (Dunker)
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Mya sp. indet. - fragments
Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin)
Admete sp. indet. - worn, broken
Polinices (Euspira) new species?
Spermophilus sp.
80AHp58z (Cenozoic loc. M7842) , Flaxman Island , Locality in Flaxman Island (A-3) quadrangle, at 70 deg., 01 min., 40 sec. N., 145 deg., 10 min. W., Flaxman Formation.
Portlandia (Portlandia) cf. P.(P.) arctica (Gray)
Portlandia sp. ? - fragments
80AHp64 (Cenozoic loc. M7843) , Barter Island , Gravels overlying marine clay, at 70 deg., 06 min., 30 sec. N., 143 deg., 31 min. W., Barter Island (A-5) quadrangle.
Astarte sp. - fragments
80AHp71a (Cenozoic loc. M7844) , Barter Island , Gravels overlying marine clay, at 70 deg., 07 min., 40 sec. N., 143 deg., 31 min., 30 sec. W., Barter Island (A-5) quadrangle.
Astarte sp. - fragments
80AHp85a (Cenozoic loc. M7845) , Barter Island , Buried beach gravel, Barter Island (A-3) quadrangle, 70 deg., 01 min., 50 sec. N., 142 deg., 42 min. W.
Astarte sp. - fragments
Bivalve fragments
80AHp85e (Cenozoic loc. M7846) , Barter Island , Same locality as M7845.
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Colus cf. C. spitzbergensis (Reeve)
80AHp99a (Cenozoic loc. M7847) , Demarcation Point , Regressive beach deposit, Demarcation Point (D-3) quadrangle, 69 deg., 58 min., 30 sec. N., 142 deg., 35 min. W.
Cyrtodaria kurriana (Gray)
Bivalve fragments
No field loc. number (shipment: A-80-31M) (Cenozoic loc. M7848) , Flaxman Island , Modern shells from Huluhula River delta.
Astarte borealis Schumacher
Pandora (Pandora) cf. P.(P.) glacialis Leach
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus
Portlandia (Portlandia) arctica (Gray)
Liocyma fluctuosa (Gould)
Clinocardium sp. - fragment
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)
Macoma sp. - juveniles
Cyrtodaria kurriana (Gray)
Lyonsia (Lyonsia) arenosa (Moeller)
Buccinum angulosum Gray
Buccinum cf. B. tenellum Dall
Buccinum cf. B. polare Gray