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Description: North side of St. Lawrence Island. Sea bluffs, halfway between mouth of Fossil River and first basalt outcrops in Kookooligit Mountains. 20 feet below top of 40 foot bluff entirely composed of stratified marine sand and gravel. Approximate location: 63o 31' N., 171o 1 1/2' W. (15.3, 11.4) (St. Lawrence 1:250,000 quad.)
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: St Lawrence
Lat.: 63o31' " Long.: 171o01.5 '
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1961 (07/12)
Report by: F. Stearns MacNeil
Referred by: David M. Hopkins
Age: Pleistocene
Comment:An unidentified Natica from Submarine and Intermediate Beaches could be clausa, and Mya sp. from all beaches at Nome may be pseudoarenaria. Otherwise there is nothing in common with Nome. Similarity with Kivalina is equally vague. I doubt this collection is very old.
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Snails Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip and Sowerby Not found at Nome but present in Gubik formation.
2 Snails Neptunea, fragment. Probably the form varicifera Dall.
3 Snails Buccinum, fragment
4 Bivalves Astarte cf. A. arctica Gray
5 Bivalves Astarte borealis Schumacher
6 Bivalves Mya cf. M. pseudoarenaria Schlesch.