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Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks, mammals, brachiopods, barnacle
Quadrangle or area: North Slope
Shipment No.: A-78-14M
Referred by: Carter, L. David
Report prepared by: Marincovich, Louie , Jr.
Date: 02/14/1978

This report deals with 14 samples of Pleistocene megainvertebrates from scattered localities in the Gubik Formation of the central North Slope region, Alaska.

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77-ACr-II-85 (Cenozoic loc. M7205) , Harrison Bay , Shells from Colville River bar near Ocean Point, W-1/2 Section 15, T. 8 N., R. 3 E., Harrison Bay (A-3) Quadrangle; latitude 70 deg. 03 min. N.; longitude 151 deg. 21 min. W.
Colus spitzbergensis (Reeve)
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus
Chlamys (Chlamys) beringiana colvillensis MacNeil
Hemithiris psittaces (Gmelin)
77-ACr-II-25 (Cenozoic loc. M7206) , Harrison Bay , Specimens from bar on Judy Creek, SE-1/4 Section 15, T. 10 N., R. 1 E., Harrison Bay (A-4) Quadrangle.
Plicifusus kroyeri (Moeller)
Colus sp.
Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. C.(C.) pseudislandica MacNeil
Astarte sp.
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Cyclocardia cf. C. crassidens (Broderip and Sowerby, 1829)
Worm tubes: Tangle masses of clacareous tubes
77-ACr-II-69 (Cenozoic loc. M7207) , Harrison Bay , Specimens from bar on Judy Creek, SE-1/4 Section 13, T. 8 N., R. 3 W., Harrison Bay (A-5) Quadrangle.
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Neptunea (Neptunea) lyrata (Gmelin) subspecies - juvenile
Neptunea sp. - fragments
Epitonium greenlandicum (Perry)
Plicifusus kroyeri (Moeller)
Buccinum sp.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)
Mya sp. - fragment
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Astarte cf. A. montagui (Dillwyn)
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
77-ACr-II-48 (Cenozoic loc. M7208) , Harrison Bay , Beach (?) deposits in cutbank of Miluveach River, S-1/4 Section 34, T. 11 W., R. 7 E., Harrison Bay (B-1) Quadrangle.
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Mytilid fragment
Cyrtodaria kurriana (Dunker)
Clinocardium sp. -fragments
Astarte sp. -fragments
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)
Astarte sp. - juveniles
Indeterminate bivalve fragments
Neptunea lyrata (Gmelin) subspecies - fragments
Tachyrhynchus sp.- fragments
77-ACr-II-20 (Cenozoic loc. M7209) , Harrison Bay , Locality on bar of creek tributary to Kalikpik River, N-1/4 Section 33, T. 13 N., R. 1 W., Harrison Bay (B-4) Quadranlgle.
Neptunea (Neptunea) cf. N.(N.) heros heros (Gray)
Boreotrophon clathratus (Linnaeus)
Colus aff. C. spitzbergensis (Reeve)
Epitonium greenlandicum (Perry)
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Plicifusus kroyeri (Moeller)
Turrid sp.
Tachyrhynchus erosum (Couthouy)
Buccinum sp.
?Colus sp. - fragment
Colus spitzbergensis (Reeve)
Mya sp. - fragments
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Astarte cf. A. montagui (Dillwyn)
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Macoma (Macoma) cf. M.(M.) calcarea (Gmelin)
Macoma sp. -fragment
Rangifer sp. (CARIBOU)
?Squirrel - fragments
77-ACr-II-15 (Cenozoic loc. M7210) , Harrison Bay , East facing bluff at beach, south of Saktuina Point: mouth of Kogru River, Harrison Bay (C-4) Quadrangle, N-1/2 Section 14, T. 14 N., R. 1 W.
Buccinum tenellum Dall
Macoma (Macoma) balthica (Linnaeus)
Astarte sp.- juveniles
77-ACr-II-10 (Cenozoic loc. M7712) , Teshekpuk , 10 to 15 ft. of thin bedded, silt and very fine sand overlain by about 10 ft. of beach sand and gravel, and capped by about 10 ft. of silt and clay that contains scattered pebbles and pods of sand. Shells collected from the beach sand and gravel on shore of Teshekpuk Lake, E-1/2 Section 24, T. 16 N., R. 7 W., Teshekpuk (C-1) Quadrangle.
Mya sp. - fragments
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus)
Musculus sp. -fragment
Liomesus cf. L. ooides (Middendorff)
Plicifusus kroyeri (Moeller)
Natica clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin)
77-ACr-II-8 (Cenozoic loc. M7213) , Teshekpuk , Shells colected from sand and gravel pods, lenses and stringers exposed in a bluff at the south end of a thaw lake about one mile inshore of Teshekpuk Lake, N-1/2 Section 19, T. 15 N., R. 4 W., Teshekpuk (C-1) quadrangle.
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Macoma sp. - juvenile
77-ACr-II-7 (Cenozoic loc. M7214) , Teshekpuk , Edge of a thaw lake; shells from marine muds in which the lake has developed; NW-1/4 Section 14, T. 16 N., R. 5 W., Teshekpuk (C-1) Quadrangle.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Neptunea sp. - fragments
77-ACr-II-1a (Cenozoic loc. M7215) , Teshekpuk , Bluff on north side of Teshekpuk Lake; shells from various heights abvoe base of bluff. Section 7, T. 15 N., R. 5 W., Teshekpuk (C-1) Quadrangle.
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Mya sp. - fragments
Astarte sp.
Macoma sp.
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus)
Siliqua sp.
Buccinum sp.
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Obesotoma sp.
77-ACr-II-1B2 (Cenozoic loc. M7216) , Teshekpuk , Bluff on north side of Teshekpuk Lake; shells collected about 1.6 meters (5 feet) above lake level. Section 7, T. 15 N., R. 5 W., Teshekpuk (C-1) Quadrangle.
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus)
Macoma sp. - fragment
Astarte sp. - juvenile
Trichotropis sp. - worn juvenile
Obesotoma sp.
Buccinum sp.
Acteocina sp.
77-ACr-II-13 (Cenozoic loc. M7217) , Teshekpuk , Shells found on beach at Teshekpuk Lake; probably derived from bank erosion of marine deposits; Section 17, T. 15 N., R. 8 W., Teshekpuk (C-2) Quadrangle.
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Mya sp. - fragment
Macoma sp.
77-ACr-II-32 (Cenozoic loc. M7218) , Teshekpuk , 15 ft. of fine to very fine sand exposed in a bluff along northwest facing shore on Dease Inlet at Admiralty Bay; Section 1, T. 18 N., R. 14 W., Teshekpuk (D-5) Quadrangle.
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
Astarte cf. A. montagui (Dillwyn)
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Clinocardium ciliatum (Fabricius)
Natica clausa Broderip & Sowerby
77-ACr-II-63d (Cenozoic loc. M7219) , Ikpikpuk River , Bar on Oumalik River; NE-1/4 of township, T. 5 N., R. 15 W., Ikpikpuk River 2 degrees Quadrangle.
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Mya sp.
Astarte cf. A. borealis (Schumacher)
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)
Barnacle fragment
77-ACr-II-61 (Cenozoic loc. M7211) , Teshekpuk , Shells from a bar of the Oumalik River; SW-1/4 Section 27, T. 19 N., R. 14 W., Teshekpuk (A-5) Quadrangle.
Diplodonta cf. D. aleutica Dall
Several modern (?) land snail specimens
Lemmus Lemmus (lemming)
Fish bone fragments