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Sample: Sample No. 60ACr49f -- USGS No. Mesozoic loc. M1107
Locality: Field No. 60ACr49f
Description: Lat. 68o 07.8' N., long. 165o 28.6' W. Coordinates: (16.5) (2.6) Unnamed Lower Cretaceous unit (KL)[description from Jones E&R report of 6/08/61]
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Point Hope A-1
Lat.: 68o07.8 ' Long.: 165o28.6 '
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1963 (12/31)
The following report is a re-evaluation of Buchias collected by Russ Campbell and reported on by me in 1961. The identification of B. "sublaevis" rather than B. crassicollis changes the age to early Valanginian rather than middle or late Valanginian. The probable presence of B. subokensis suggests a Berriasian age for some of the section at Point Hope.

Locality data are given in the previous report.

Report by: David L. Jones
Referred by: Russell H. Campbell
Age: Neocomian
Formation: Unnamed (Unnamed Lower Cretaceous unit (KL))
Comment:Buchia sp. indeter. Not well preserved for positive identification but could be B. crassicollis or B. okensis.

Age: Neocomian.

Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Bivalves Buchia sp. indet. Not well enough preserved for positive identification but could be B. crassicollis or B. okensis

Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1961 (06/08)
This report covers eight collections of fossils from unnamed Lower Cretaceous and undivided Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks. Most of the fossils are poorly preserved and fragmentary, but the presence of Buchia crassicollis (Keyserling) indicates Lower Cretaceous (mid-to- late Valanginian) strata.
Report by: David L. Jones
Referred by: Russell H. Campbell
Age: Valanginian (mid to late Valanginian)
Formation: Unnamed (Unnamed Lower Cretaceous unit (KL))
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Bivalves Buchia crassicollis?

Title: Areal Geology in the Vicinity of the Chariot Site, Lisburne Peninsula, Northwestern Alaska ,  1967
Report by: Russell H. Campbell
Age: Neocomian
Formation: Kisimolok Formation
Comment:Fossils, almost entirely pelecypods of the genus Buchia (=Aucella), are abundant locally in the lower zone of interbedded mudstone and sandstone and sparsely distributed in the overly mudstone, but most of the beds of the Kisimilok Formation are relatively barren of fossils. The collections have been examined by David L. Jones, of the Geological Survey, who reports (written commun., 1961, 1963):

Jones concludes that the collections containing B. "sublaevis" are probably from early Valanginian rocks, and that the probable presence of B. subokensis suggests a Berriasian age for some of the section (written commun., 1963). On the basis of the pelecypod fauna, the Kisimilok Formation is assigned an Early Cretaceous age. A correlation with part of the Okpikruak Formation of Early Cretaceous age (Gryc and others, 1951, p. 159-160) is suggested on the basis of the Buchia species, following the zonation of Imlay (1959, p. 165). (from Campbell, 1967, p. 28)

Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Bivalves Buchia sp. indet. Not well enough preserved for positivie identification but could be B. crassicolis or B. okensis. Identified by D.L. Jones.