Sample Detail of
Sample: Sample No. 69ADt105
Locality: Field No. 69ADt105
Description: Fire Creek; 6 miles N. 80o W of junction with Sadlerochit River.
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Mt Michelson
Lat.: 69o31'45 " Long.: 145o12'20 "
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1969 (11/17)
Report by: Norman J. Silberling
Referred by: Robert L. Detterman
Age: Ladinian-Norian
Formation: Shublik Formation
Comment:Stratigraphic distances above base of Shublik Fm. according to telephone conversation with Detterman of 10/21/69. Collections by others from this section include fossils fo still younger age within the Upper Triassic.
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Bivalves 27 - 72 Gryphaea? sp. "Unit 2" placed at a level 72 ft lower than base of formation selected by the British Petroleum party and by Tourtelot and Tailleur who measured this same section respectively in 1964 and 1968.
2 Ammonoids 27 - 72 Indet. ammonite - possibly a Leiophyllites
3 Bivalves 100 - 110 Daonella frami Kittl "Unit 3" early Ladinian. This is about 50 ft lower in section than the position of D. frami reported by BP Co.
4 Bivalves 100 Slab no. 1: Daonella frami Kittl "Unit 3, lower 80 ft." Mainly about 100 ft above the base of Shublik. Early Ladinian
5 Bivalves Slab no. 2: Lima sp.
6 Bivalves Slab no. 2: Camptonectes? sp.
7 Brachiopods 100 Slab no. 3: Spiriferid brachiopods
8 Bivalves Slab no. 4: Indet. halobiid pelecypod fragments
9 Bivalves 210 Unidentified pectenacids of indefinite age "Unit 3, #2, 20 ft below top"
10 Bivalves 225 - 235 Lima sp. "Unit 4"
11 Bivalves 225 - 235 Shell fragments of Gryphaea?
12 Vertebrates 225 - 235 Bone fragments
13 Bivalves 245 - 320 Halobia cf. H. zitteli Lindstrom "Unit 5" probably late Karnian.
14 Ammonoids 245 - 320 Indet. Sirenites-like or clionitid ammonite
15 Bivalves 420 - 450 Monotis (Eomonotis) pinensis Westermann, 1962 (enter as M. scutiformis pinensis) "Unit 6" middle Norian
16 Bivalves 420 - 450 Halobia cf. H. fallax Mojsisovics
17 Bivalves 470 Monotis cf. M. scutiformis "Unit 6, #2" middle Norian
18 Bivalves Halobia cf. H. fallax Mojsisovics
19 Bivalves Gryphaea sp.
20 Brachiopods Undetermined rhynchonellid brachiopods
21 Bivalves Undetermined pectenacid pelecypods