Alaska Paleontological Database

Sample Detail

Sample:	Sample No. HC3-1240 -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. M6544
Locality:	Field No. HC3-1240
Description:	Scarp above beach cliff 54 degs. 41 min. 08 sec. N., 160 degs. 47 min. 50 sec. W. or 1,100 feet N. 1,400 feet E of SW cor. sec. 11, T.17 S., R. 70 W. Collected by W. L. Coonrad, 1975.
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Hagemeister Island C-3 Township&Range: T17S R70W Section: Sec. 11 Lat.: 54^o41^'08 ^" Long.: 160^o47^'50 ^"

Reference

Title:	Report on Referred Fossils , 1976 (02/13)

Report by:	Warren O. Addicott
Referred by:	Warren L. Coonrad , Joseph M. Hoare


Age:	Late Pliocene-Quaternary (Late Pliocene or Quaternary)






Comment:	Age: late Pliocene or Quaternary. There are few fossil records of Nuculana fossa; accordingly, it seems unwise to attach age significance to its poorly documented range. There are scattered records from strata of Pleistocene age but, so far as I am aware, none from undoubted Pliocene strata in Alaska. The modern geographic range of this species is from the Chukchi Sea southward Puget Sound, Washington. It is representative of sublittoral (equals neritic) to upper bathyal depths.