Sample Detail of
Sample: Sample No. 66APa119 -- USGS No. Paleobot. loc. D3917
Locality: Field No. 66APa119
Description: long 159o 56'W., lat. 66o 10'N., Selawik quad., from isolated cutbank of tilted gravels, N. edge of the Selawik Hills. Lignitic coal, not found in place, but thought to be part of cutbank gravels.
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Selawik A-2
Lat.: 66o10' " Long.: 159o56' "
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1970 (03/19)
Re your 2 samples from St. Lawrence Island and one from Selawik quad., Alaska.
Report by: Estella B. Leopold
Referred by: William W. Patton , Jr.
Age: Eocene-Oligocene
Comment:This sample is older than our Seldovian late Oligocene and apparently younger than my collections of Chickaloon. Age: Eocene or early or middle Oligocene.
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Plants Picea
2 Plants P4-sm-6
3 Plants Osmunda
4 Plants Betula sp.
5 Plants Betula w/polar scar
6 Plants Salix
7 Plants Carya
8 Plants O-p-11 (Tax type)
9 Plants Rutaceae
10 Plants Pterocarya
11 Plants cf. Nymphaea
12 Plants Alnus, p6, p4
13 Plants Tilia (small)
14 Plants P3-sm-10
15 Plants Palmae
16 Plants Juglans? (or Pterocarya)
17 Plants Anacardiaceae
18 Plants Taxodiaceae
19 Plants Sequoia type
20 Plants Polypodiaceae (frequent)