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Sample:
Sample No. 76-ANr-60 -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. M7026
Locality:
Field No. 76-ANr-60
Description:
Shells at mouth of snow-filled gully on left limit of Papigak Creek one kilometer above mouth, Meade River (D-4) quadrangle, Latitude 70
o
48.8 min N; Longitude 158
o
09.6 min W; middle Pleistocene.
Location:
Alaska Quadrangle:
Meade River
D-4
Lat.: 70
o
48.8
'
Long.: 158
o
09.6
'
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:
Middle Pleistocene
Occurrence(s)
No.
Group
Name
Qty
Notes
1
Snails
Plicifusus kroyeri (Moeller)
2
Bivalves
Astarte borealis (Schumacher)
3
Bivalves
Serripes groenlandicus (Bruguiere)
4
Bivalves
Cyclocardia crebricostata (Krause)
5
Bivalves
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus)