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Stratigraphic range: Mesozoic - Cretaceous
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks
Quadrangle or area: Yakutat District, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-69-10M
Referred by: Plafker, George
Report prepared by: Jones, David L.
Date: 06/12/1969

This report covers the most extensive collection of fossils yet recorvered from the Yakutat Group of southern Alaska. Unfortunately, most of the fossils are either poorly preserved, belong to undescribed forms, occur in dislocated blocks, or are otherwise undiagnostic as to age. This is particularly true of the numerous clams from locs. M5102, M5104, and M5105. Warren Addicott and I have thrashed with thses specimens for a considerable time, and now tentatively believe that they are Mesozoic, probably Cretaceous, and perhaps nonmarine. The scrap of I. cf. I. schmidti from loc. M5108 is a notable discovery, which, if in place and further confirmed by additional collections, will substantiate a Late Cretaceous (Campanian) age for part of the Yakutat Group.

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68APs9D (Mesozoic loc. M5102) , Yakutat , Clams in calc. sltst. and silty ss. (float).
Unionid with "taxodont" teeth
Clam A - genus and species unknown - hinge with two cardinal teeth and anterior lateral
68APs48D (Mesozoic loc. M5103) , Yakutat , Float
Clam A
68APr56F (Mesozoic loc. M5106) , Yakutat , Clams in calc. sltst. (float).
Clam A
68APr21C (Mesozoic loc. M5104) , Yakutat , Clams in calc. sltst.
Clam A - same Unionid as in M5102
68APr73A (Mesozoic loc. M5105) , Yakutat , Siliceous mollusks in marble. (description from Jones, 1969 E&R report) [Harris E&R report 12/3/83 provides following description: "Siliceous cherty limestone with scattered skeletal debris from lat. 59 deg. 54.2 min., long. 139 deg. 24.5 min., Yakutat D-4 quadrangle."]
silicified snails
fragments of pelecypod? shells
68APr127D (Mesozoic loc. M5107) , Yakutat , Inoc. frags. and clam.
Scraps of Inoceramus shell
68APs72E (Mesozoic loc. M5108) , Yakutat , [68APs72E may be entered wrong because it is not listed by Plafker in his transmittal report-NZ]
Inoceramus cf. I. schmidti Michael
68APr130A , Mt St Elias , Inoc. frags. in calc. sltst.
Inoceramus scraps
68APr25D , Yakutat , Inoc. frags. in calc. sltst.
Terebellina palachei