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Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks, barnacle, bone fragments
Quadrangle or area: North Slope region, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-79-6M-B
Referred by: Carter, L. David
Report prepared by: Marincovich, Louie , Jr.
Date: 05/24/1979

[Conitued from part A-79-6M-A]

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78ACrII115 (Cenozoic loc. M7359) , Umiat , River bluff 108 feet high on Colville River, consisting of 78 feet of bedrock overlain by 30 feet of unconsolidated sand and gravelly sand of the Gubik Formation. Shells collected from the lower 5 feet of the unconsolidated deposits.
Liocyma fluctuosa (Philippi)
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus)
Siliqua sp. - fragment
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
Astarte sp. - juveniles
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
?Polinices new species
Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin)
Obesotoma sp.
Oenopota sp.
?Colus spitzbergensis (Reeve) - fragment
Margarites sp. - fragment
Neptunea (Neptunea) lyrata (Gmelin) subspecies - worn fragments
small fragments
Bone, small worn fragment
78ACrII118A1 (Cenozoic loc. M7360) , Umiat , River bluff 114 feet high on Kikiakrorak River, consisting of 67 feet of bedrock overlain by 47 feet of sand, gravelly sand, and silt of the Gubik Formation. Sample 118A1 collected at the base of the unconsolidated deposits; scallop shell from 10 feet above the base and sample 118D from 13 feet above the base of the unconsolidated deposits.
Naticid sp. indeterminate - fragments
Tachyrhynchus erosus (Couthouy)
Neptunea (Neptunea) cf. N. (N.) lyrata leffingwelli (Dall) - fragments
78ACrII118D (Cenozoic loc. M7361) , Umiat , River bluff 114 feet high on Kikiakrorak River, consisting of 67 feet of bedrock overlain by 47 feet of sand, gravelly sand, and silt of the Gubik Formation. Sample 118A1 collected at the base of the unconsolidated deposits; scallop shell from 10 feet above the base and sample 118D from 13 feet above the base of the unconsolidated deposits.
Neptunea (Neptunea) cf. N. (N.) lyrata leffingwelli (Dall) - fragments
78ACrII118 *Pecten* (Cenozoic loc. M7465) , Umiat , River bluff 114 feet high on Kikiakrorak River, consisting of 67 feet of bedrock overlain by 47 feet of sand, gravelly sand, and silt of the Gubik Formation. Sample 118A1 collected at the base of the unconsolidated deposits; scallop shell from 10 feet above the base and sample 118D from 13 feet above the base of the unconsolidated deposits.
Chlamys (Chlamys) cf. C. (C.) rubida hindsii (Carpenter)