Alaska Paleontological Database

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Sample:	Sample No. 48AI77 -- USGS No. Mesozoic loc. 21233
Locality:	Field No. 48AI77
Description:	[Shown as locality 30 on Pl. 3 of Detterman and Hartsock, 1966 - Note by R.B. Blodgett: digitization of this point gives approx. lat. 60^o 10'34" N., 152^o 44'31" W.][Entry in USGS Mesozoic Fossil Locality register (Washington, D.C.) provides following description: "(Orig. no. 48AI77). Lower Jurassic(?). Same geographical location as 21232. About 1/4 mile up first south tributary of creek entering Tuxedni Bay from south. 2.6 miles N 77^o W of Fossil Point. From sandy siltstone in interbedded sandstone-siltstone sequence about 350 feet stratigraphically above the highest lava bed. Coll. Ralph W. Imlay and Don J. Miller. July 31, 1948."]
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Kenai A-8 Lat.: 60^o10^'34 ^" Long.: 152^o44^'31 ^"

Reference

Title:	Geology of the Iniskin-Tuxedni Region, Alaska , 1966

Report by:	Robert L. Detterman , John K. Hartsock


Age:	Bajocian
Formation:	Red Glacier Formation





Comment:	Geographic location: Hungryman Creek, Difficult Creek Map reference (pl. 3): 30 Stratigraphic position below top of formation (ft): 1500-1600 all above data from Table 4, p. 25

Occurrence(s)
No.	Group		Name	Qty	Notes
1	Bivalves		Inoceramus sp.		fauna identified by R.W. Imlay
2	Bivalves		Astarte sp.
3	Ammonoids		Tmetoceras regleyi
4	Ammonoids		Tmetoceras cf. T. scissum (Benecke)
5	Ammonoids		Erycites howelli (White)