Alaska Paleontological Database

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Sample:	Sample No. 76-ANr-36a -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. M7013
Locality:	Field No. 76-ANr-36a
Description:	Shell lying on surface at top of bluff, Latitude 70^o 43.1 min N; Longitude 49.9 min W, Wainwright (C-2) quadrangle; Sangamon? or Holocene.
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Wainwright C-2

Reference

Title:	Report on Referred Fossils , 1978 (12/15)
	This report deals with 54 collections of megafossils from 34 localities on the Arctic Ocean coastal plain of northwestern Alaska. Collections are listed in numerical order by field locality number.
Report by:	Louie Marincovich , Jr.
Referred by:	David M. Hopkins , Robert E. Nelson


Age:	Pleistocene-Holocene (Pleistocene or Holocene)






Comment:	This species lives along the adjacent modern coastline; it has not been reported as a fossil in the literature, but it occurs elsewhere in this E&R from Sangamon localities.

Occurrence(s)
No.	Group		Name	Qty	Notes
1	Snails		Beringius beringi (Middendorff) - 1 specimen, broken