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Stratigraphic range: Middle Jurassic
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks
Quadrangle or area: Demarcation Point and Phillip Smith Quads., Alaska
Shipment No.: A-75-17
Referred by: Detterman, Robert L.
Report prepared by: Imlay, Ralph W.
Date: 10/01/1975

The collections from localities 75ARR 205 G, H and I on the Niguanak River are dated as late Early Bajocian by the presence of Pseudolioceras whiteavesi (White) and Erycitoides howelli (White) which in southern Alaska occur directly below ammonite faunas charatertistic of the European Sonninia sowerbyi Zone (Westermann, 1969, Bull. Am. Paleontology, v. 57, no. 255, p. 345-352, fig. 5) and with ammonite genera not known above the European Graphoceras concavum Zone (Wetermann, 1969, fig. 8 on p. 18). Canavarella in England has been recorded from the European zone of Tmetoceras scissum near the base of the Middle Jurassic.
The collection from locality 75ARR 209 on the Aichilik River is dated as late Bethonian by the presence of Arcticoceras. That genus on Ignek Mesa in northern Alaska and in East Greenland (Callomon, 1959, p. 505-512, table) occurs at the top of a Bathonian ammonite succession consisting from the base upward of Cranocephalites, Arctocephalites and Arcticoceras. In east greenland it is succeeded by the earliest occurrences of Paracodoceras and Kepplerites which are succeeded in turn by ammonites of earliest Callovian age as in northwest Europe.

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75ARR205 (Mesozoic loc. 30902) , Demarcation Point , Tributary of Niguanak River, 5.2 miles S. 5 degrees W. of Junction with Niguanak River. Float.
Lytoceras? sp. juv.
Belemnite
75ARR205G (Mesozoic loc. 30903) , Demarcation Point , Same location as loc. 75ARR205 [Tributary of Niguanak River, 5.2 miles S. 5 degrees W. of Junction with Niguanak River] but in place. Black chippy siltstone containing ironstone nodules and minor bentonite.
Canavarella? sp.
Belemnites
Inoceramus lucifer Eichwald
75ARR205H (Mesozoic loc. 30904) , Demarcation Point , Same location as loc. 75ARR205G [Tributary of Niguanak River, 5.2 miles S. 5 degrees W. of Junction with Niguanak River] but from different spot.
Pseudolioceras whiteavesi (White)
Pseudolioceras sp.
Erycitoides howelli (White)
Erycitoides cf. E. teres Westermann
Canavarella crassifalcata Imlay
Belemnites
Inoceramus cf. I. lucifer Eichwald
Astarte sp.
75ARR205I (Mesozoic loc. 30905) , Demarcation Point , Same location as loc. 75ARR205H [Tributary of Niguanak River, 5.2 miles S. 5 degrees W. of Junction with Niguanak River] but higher in section.
Canavarella crassifalcata Imlay
Inoceramus lucifer Eichwald
75ARR209 (Mesozoic loc. 30906) , Demarcation Point , Aichilik River, west bank, same locality as 71ADt330D (Mes. loc. 30075) may be slightly higher in section than 330D.
Arcticoceras ishmae (Keyserling)
Macrophylloceras sp.
Grammatodon? sp.