Alaska Paleontological Database

Sample Detail

Sample:	Sample No. 61Aj110A -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. 23125
Locality:	Field No. 61Aj110A
Description:	Kotzebue C-1 quad., Alaska. Latitude 66^o 43'42"; longitude 162^o 24'02". 15.80" north, 2.72" east of SW corner of quadrangle. Baldwin Peninsula, north of the Arctic Circle. Shells collected from woody peat 11 feet above sea level. R.J. Janda, 1961.
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Kotzebue C-1 Lat.: 66^o43^'42 ^" Long.: 162^o24^'02 ^"

Reference

Title:	Report on Referred Fossils , 1962 (08/ )

Report by:	Dwight W. Taylor
Referred by:	David M. Hopkins , D. S. McCulloch


Age:	Pleistocene-Recent






Comment:	All of the fossils represent species living in Alaska, but not enough is known about details of geographic distribution to say whether local shifts in range have taken place. There are no clear stratigraphic changes in faunal composition, althought the relatively large assemblage from locality 23172 may represent a richer fauna than now lives in the same area. So far as present information goes, none of the collections can be differentiated from the living fauna or placed in a sequence of ecologic changes.