Sample Detail of
Sample: Sample No. 64AMm54F -- USGS No. Mesozoic loc. M2439
Locality: Field No. 64AMm54F
Description: North-central Alaska, Hughes 1:250,000 quad. Four miles SW of Hughes, 2 miles W. of Koyukuk River. Specimens from medium dark brown to grayish-green fine-grained to medium-grained fossiliferous tuffs. These tuffs are from the same belt of volcanics and interbedded impure limestone of Neocomian age as the collections made by Patton in 1953 4 miles below Hughes on the Koyukuk River. Loc. 53APa 422 (Mes. loc. 24685) and by Patton in 1963 12 miles west of here at the Bates VABM in the Melozitna quad - 63APa 214 (P&S No. M2075).
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Hughes A-3
Lat.: 66o00'45 " Long.: 154o24' "
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1964 (11/25)
Report by: David L. Jones
Referred by: T. P. Miller
Age: Early Cretaceous (probably Lower Cretaceous)
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Brachiopods Terebratulid brachiopods
2 Bivalves Impression of a pectenid clam similar to Camptonectes
3 Bivalves Inoceramus shell fragments