Alaska Paleontological Database

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Sample:	Sample No. 76-ANr-52 -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. M7021
Locality:	Field No. 76-ANr-52
Description:	Shells from tip of spit near entrance to Wainwright Inlet, Wainwright (C-2) quadrangle, Latitude 70^o 35.15 min N; Longitude 160^o 08 min W; Holocene or Sangamon.
Location:	Alaska Quadrangle: Wainwright C-2 Lat.: 70^o35.15 ^' Long.: 160^o08^' ^"

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:	Specimen still has periostracum preserved on shell surface, is almost certainly Holocene. The species ranges Kotzebuan to Holocene in Alaska.

Occurrence(s)
No.	Group		Name	Qty	Notes
1	Snails		Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin)