Alaska Paleontological Database

Sample Detail

Sample:	Sample No. 58ALy36
Locality:	Field No. 58ALy36
Description:	Transmittal sheets of R.A. Loney, dated Nov. 6, 1958 provide following description: Collection from calc. gy bk slate & dk gy ls-thin bedded, +or- 150 ft. thick section not in direct contact with any other unit-prob below Jurassic(?) slate. Coords: 8.50, 0.34. [West side of West Channel, Pybus Bay. 8.50 in. right, 0.34 in. up from SW corner of Sitka (B-1) quad. (description from Silberling E&R report of 2/25/59)]
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Sitka B-1

Reference

Title:	Report on Referred Fossils , 1959 (02/25)
	Portions or all of collections 58ALy36, 204, 221, 136b, 290, 330, and 494 are being retained for the P&S reference collections. These collections will be deposited at the Menlo Park laboratory and will be assigned USGS locality number in Menlo Park. As requested, the remainder of the material that was not destroyed in preparation is being returned. The faunal lists of the material for the various collections covered by this report are as follows:
Report by:	Norman J. Silberling
Referred by:	R. A. Loney


Age:	Norian (middle to late Norian)






Comment:	The diagnostic pelecypod Monotis subcircularis Gabb establishes a late Late Triassic (middle or late Norian) age for the collections 58ALy36, 204, and 221.