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Sample: Sample No. Humble Oil Co. Cenozoic loc. FG-68-M1, M2, M3, and M4 -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. M3977
Locality: Field No. Humble Oil Co. Cenozoic loc. FG-68-M1, M2, M3, and M4
Description: Edge of Fairweather Glacier, 3-3/4 mi. W. of Mt. Escures, in T. 36 S., R. 46 E. Lat. 68o 47.8'N., long. 137o 47.8' W. Yakataga Formation. Mount Fairweather quad. Collected in June, 1968.
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Mt Fairweather D-6
Township&Range: T36S R46E
Lat.: 58o47.8 ' Long.: 137o47.8 '
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1969 (03/10)
This report deals with four collections of middle Tertiary mollusks from the Poul Creek and Yakataga Formations of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary Province. Included with the megafossil shipment were four rock samples, possibly collected for microfossil analysis - SH68-20, SH68-38, CY68-32, and FG68-3. These, and an unlabeled bag containing mollusk-bearing samples, FG68-M5, was not included on the list of fossil locality descriptions. It would be appreciated if the locality data for this collection could be forwarded to Menlo Park so that it can be assigned a permanent localtiy number. It would also be helpful if the latitude and longitude coordinates for the other three collections could be rechecked. One, SH68-23-38, plots about 20-25 miles ENE of Cape Suckling ranther than "about 5 1/2 miles NE of Cape Suckling."
Report by: Warren O. Addicott
Referred by: Howard Sonneman
Age: Middle Miocene-Late Miocene
Formation: Yakataga Formation
Comment:Age: middle or late Miocene.
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Snails Buccinum sp. A - with very fine spiral sculpture
2 Snails Buccinum sp. B - with faint axial folds
3 Snails Naticid - Cryptonatica?
4 Snails Neptunea n. sp. aff. N. lyrata (Gmelin)
5 Snails Turritella cf. T. hamiltonensis Clark
6 Snails Undet. small high-spired gastropod
7 Bivalves "Cardium" hamiltonensis Clark
8 Bivalves Clinocardium cf. C. yakatagensis (Clark)
9 Bivalves Cyclocardia cf. C. hamiltonensis (Clark)
10 Bivalves Cyclocardia n. sp,? aff. C. paucicostata (Krause)
11 Bivalves Macoma aff. M. brota Dall
12 Bivalves Mya cf. M. truncata Linnaeus
13 Bivalves Patinopecten sp. - fragment
14 Bivalves Periploma n. sp.? aff. P. cryphia Woodring
15 Bivalves Portlandia sp.
16 Bivalves Siliqua cf. S. alta (Broderip and Sowerby)
17 Bivalves Spisula sp.
18 Bivalves Thracia cf. T. schencki Tegland
19 Bivalves Thyasira
20 Echinoids Schizaster sp. - badly deformed