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Sample No. 44AWWF-3 -- USGS No. Mesozoic loc. 19934
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Field No. 44AWWF-3
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[Shown as locality 127 on Pl. 3 of Detterman and Hartsock, 1966][Imlay, 1982, p. 13 provides following description: "Helmuth Wedow, Jr., 1944. Iniskin Peninsula, small tributary on right side of Cliff Creek about 5,100 ft (1,554 m) above junction with Fitz Creek and 2.42 miles (3.9 km) S. 14o W. of mouth of Fitz Creek. Twist Creek Siltstone, about 85 ft (26 m) above base."]; [19934 Helmuth Wedow, Jr., 1944, Iniskin Peninsula, small tributary on right side of Cliff Creek, 2.42 miles S 14° W of mouth of Fitz Creek. Bowser member of the Tuxedni formation, about 85 feet above base. (description from Imlay, 1961, p. 468)]; [USGS Mes. Cat.: 19934. 44AWW F-3. Jurassic -Tuxedni, Bowser member. SW Alaska, Cook Inlet, Iniskin Peninsual. Mouth of small tributary on the right side of Cliff Creek, about 5100 ft. upstream from the confluence of Cliff and Fitz creeks and 2.55 miles S 14° W of mouth of Fitz Creek. Strat. Pos. 85 ft. above base of Bowser member of Tuxedni. Lithology - Sandy shale interbedded with siltstone and calcareous concretions.] Collector not listed, but obviously H. Wedow based on adjacent entries. |
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Alaska Quadrangle: Iliamna D-1 |
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Reference
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Late Bajocian ammonites from southern Alaska
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1982
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ABSTRACT Early late Bajocian ammonites have been found in southern Alaska in the Talkeetna Mountains, on the west side of Cook Inlet between Tuxedni Bay and Iniskin Bay, and in the lower Kuskokwim-Bristol Bay area north of Togiak Bay. This dating is based mostly only the association of Normannites, Stephanoceras, and Stemmatoceras, which are unknown or rare above beds of that age, with Cadomites and Leptosphinctes, which occur rarely just below beds of that age but range much higher. The dating is also based on the presence of a fragmentary ammonite that in lateral view resembles Spiroceras, a genus not known in beds older than early late Bajocian. Such an association of ammonites occurs west of Cook Inlet in the Twist Creek Siltstone, which rests conformably on the Cynthia Falls Sandstone of late middle Bajocian age and is overlain with marked unconformity by the Bowser Formation of early to late Bathonian Age. Such as association of ammonites is also found in the Talkeetna Mountains in unnamed beds that are nearly identical lithologically with the Twist Creek Siltstone, that rest conformably on beds of late middle Bajocian Age, and that are overlain with probably unconformity by beds of early Bathonian Age. The presence of such an unconformity is suggested by the fact that beds of early late Bajocian age have been found only in two areas in the Talkeetna Mountains, that still younger Bajocian beds have not been found anywhere in southern Alaska, and that still younger lower Bathonian beds are fairly widespread inthe Talkeetna Mountains as well as west of Cook Inlet. Most of the ammonite genera and subgenera present in the Twist Creek Silstone and in equivalent beds in southern Alaska are characteristic of the Tethyan Realm. The exceptions include |
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Ralph W. Imlay
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| Age: | Bajocian (early late Bajocian) |
Formation: | Twist Creek Siltstone |
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Comment: | Shown as locality 6 on Figure 5. |
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Title: |
New genera and subgenera of Jurassic (Bajocian) ammonites from Alaska
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1961
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ABSTRACT-New genera and species of Bajocian ammonites from Alaska include
Megasphaeroceras rotundum Imlay, Dettermanites vigorosus Imlay, and Parabigotites
crassicostatus Imlay. A new subgenus and species is Oppelia (Liroxyites) kellumi
Imlay. Of these Megasphaeroceras, Dettermanites and Oppelia (Liroxyites) are associated
with Spiroceras? Leptosphinctes, and Sphaeroceras of late Bajocian age. Parabigotites is associated with Stephanoceras, Otoites, Sonninia, Witchellia and
Lissoceras of middle Bajocian age. |
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Ralph W. Imlay
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| Age: | Bajocian (late Bajocian) |
Formation: | Bowser Formation (Bowser Member of the Tuxedni Formation, lower part) |
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