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Stratigraphic range: Lower Jurassic?
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks and Brachiopods
Quadrangle or area: Taylor Mt. A7 & A8, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-69-20
Referred by: Hoare, Joseph M.
Report prepared by: Imlay, Ralph W.
Date: 12/17/1969

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69AHr138 , Taylor Mts , At the head of the lower rapids and gorge on Allen River. In black slaty argillite and graywacke dipping gently south. These beds probably overlie fossiliferous limestone at station 68AHr137.
69AHr137 (Mesozoic loc. 29874) , Taylor Mts , East bank of Allen River at the middle rapids. Impure, gray, highly fossilifeous limestone, associated with at least one 6'-10' bed of calcareous chert grit conglomerate.; [USGS Mesozoic loc. 29874. East bank of Alien River at middle rapids, Tikchik Lakes area, lat 60°7' N., long 158°38' W., Taylor Mountains A-8 quad- rangle. Kuskokwim region, southwest Alaska. Weyla and other pelecypods identical with species in basal Jurassic near Seldovia on the Kenai Peninsula (loc. 13). These could be of Hettangian or Sinemurian Age. (description from Imlay and Detterman, 1973, p. 22)]; [USGS Mes. Cat.: Basal Jurassic. Orig. No. 69AHR 137. East bank of Allen River at Middle Rapids. Impure gray Ls. associated with one 6' - 10' bed of calc. chert grit or congl. Long. 158° 38' W., Lat. 60° 7' N., Taylor Mtns. A-8 quad., Kuskokwim Region. Alaska. Collector: J.M. Hoare, 1969]
Cardinia
Entolium
Velata
Aequipecten
Pleuromya
Trigonia
post-Paleozoic brachiopods
poorly preserved gastropods