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Stratigraphic range: Probably lower to middle Miocene
Kinds of fossils: Mollusks and bone fragment
Quadrangle or area: Mt. Fairweather (B-4 and C-5) Quadrangles, Alaska
Shipment No.: A-75-43M
Referred by: Plafker, George
Report prepared by: Marincovich, Louie , Jr.
Date: 12/11/1975

This report deals with four collections of middle Tertiary mollusks and one bone fragment from the Lituya Bay District of southeastern Alaska.

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75APr45A (Cenozoic loc. M6525) , Mt Fairweather , Isolated outcrop in intertidal zone of rock and sand beach about 2 miles N. of Icy Point, 2,200 feet S and 900 feet W of NE corner section 15, T. 40 S, R. 50 E., Mt. Fairweather (B-4) quadrangle. Collected by George Plafker.
Neptunea (Neptunea) plafkeri Kanno
?Colus sp.
Natica (Cryptonatica) oregonensis (Conrad)
Acila (Truncacila) taliaferroi Schenck
Acila (Truncacila) sp.
Conchocele disjuncta Gabb
Macoma (Macoma) moesta (Deshayes)
Macoma sp.
75APr40A (Cenozoic loc. M6526) , Mt Fairweather , Isolated outcrop along distal edge of Finger Glacier, 600 feet S and 1,600 feet W of NE corner section 33, T. 39 S, R. 50 E., Mt. Fairweather (B-4) quadrangle. Collected by George Plafker.
Acila (Truncacila) taliaferroi Schenck
?Spisula sp.
75APr43D (Cenozoic loc. M6527) , Mt Fairweather , Isolated outcrop in intertidal zone of rocks and sand beach, about 3-1/2 miles N of Icy Point, 2,400 feet S and 100 feet E of NW corner section 10, T. 40 S, R. 50 E., Mt. Fairweather (B-4) quadrangle. Collected by George Plafker.
Lucinoma acutilineata (Conrad)
75AM65 (Cenozoic loc. M6528) , Mt Fairweather , Isolated outcrop near head of Fall Creek, along east side of Lituya Bay, 950 feet S and 900 feet W of NE corner section 33, T. 37 S, R. 48 E., Mt. Fairweather (C-5) quadrangle. Topsy Formation, along strike from basal part of type-section. Collected by Louis Marincovich, George Plafker, Travis Hudson, and Robert Thorson.
Fusitriton oregonensis (Redfield)
?Colus sp.
Calliostoma sp.
Turbinid sp.
Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa Broderip & Sowerby
Acila (Truncacila) taliaferroi Schenck
?Chlamys sp.
Lucinoma cf. L. acutilineata (Conrad)
Nuculana (Sacella) sp.
?Thracia sp.
Macoma (Macoma) brota Dall
Macoma incongrua (von Martens)
Macoma cf. M. incongrua (von Martens)
Macoma (Macoma) aff. M. (M.) moesta (Deshayes)
Macoma sp.
Periploma (Aelga) cf. P. (A.) besshoensis (Yokoyama)
?Periploma sp.
Spisula addicotti Kanno
?Spisula sp.
Fish vertebra