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Sample: Sample No. 78Ahp500 -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. M7456
Locality: Field No. 78Ahp500
Description: Shell collected by Bob Lewellen and given to David Hopkins with inadequate locality information. May be from Gubik Formation in bluffs near Barrow, possibly Barrow (A-5) quadrangle.
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Barrow
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1979 (12/19)
This report deals with marine mollusks from 56 collections made in the Pleistocene Gubik and Flaxman Formations, and also made along modern beaches of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of northern Alaska. This work is included in David Hopkins' project 9310-01526. Collections are arranged below in the same order in which they were listed on the paleo request form. [The report consists of six separate reports of six pages each and all the reports have the same Date Reported date - NZ]
Report by: Louie Marincovich , Jr.
Referred by: David M. Hopkins
Age: Pleistocene-Holocene
Formation: Gubik Formation (Gubik Formation (?))
Comment:This is an unusually large specimen of Tachyrhynchus, a fairly common Arctic genus that is reported to have two species in Pleistocene and Holocene deposits of Alaska.
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Snails Tachyrhynchus sp. indet. - fragment