Alaska Paleontological Database

Sample Detail

Sample:	Sample No. 7-11-84A
Locality:	Field No. 7-11-84A
Description:	Samples 7-11-84A & B were collected to see if the Shishakshinovik pluton had any effect on the overlying Mississippian rocks; that is, is the pluton post-Devonian? Medium-gray, moderate-reddish-orange- and moderate-reddish-brown-weathering terrigenous limestone to calcareous, fine- to medium-grained sandstone and siltstone with abundant fossil hash; Kayak Shale a few hundred feet from contact with pluton, at elevation 4130 feet, lat. 67^o 25.7 min., long. 156^o 15.4 min., Ambler River quadrangle.
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Ambler River B-1 Lat.: 67^o25.7 ^' Long.: 156^o15.4 ^'

Reference

Title:	Report on Referred Fossils , 1985 (03/18)
	REFERENCE CITED Lane, H. R., Sandberg, C.A., and Ziegler, Willi, 1980, Taxonomy and phylogeny of some Lower Carboniferous conodonts and preliminary standard post-SIPHONODELLA zonation: Geologica et Palaeontologica, v. 14, p. 117-164.
Report by:	Anita G. Harris , R. T. Lierman , Katharine S. Schindler
Referred by:	William W. Patton , Jr. , Irv L. Tailleur


Age:	No Data
Formation:	Kayak Shale





Comment:	7.3 kg of rock was processed (1.2 kg of +20 mesh and 546 g of 20-200 mesh insoluble residue): NO CONODONTS WERE RECOVERED. The sample produced abundant phosphatized steinkerns of low- and high-spired gastropods and rare phosphatized steinkerns of clams and ostracodes.