Sample Detail of
Sample: Sample No. No Data -- USGS No. Cenozoic loc. M7966
Locality: Field No. No Data
Description: Float specimens from JKB section 64. Float collection from sea cliff just N of broad valley 3.50 miles NE of mouth of Tuapaktushak Creek, Center E 1/2, sec. 1, T. 18 N., R. 22 W., Meade River (D-3) quadrangle.
Location: Alaska Quadrangle: Meade River D-3
Township&Range: T18N R22W Section: Center E 1/2, sec. 1
Reference
Title: Report on Referred Fossils ,  1983 (05/05)
Report by: Louie Marincovich , Jr.
Referred by: David M. Hopkins
Age: Pleistocene-Holocene (Pleistocene - Holocene (age of locality not specified))
Comment:Comment: NATICA JANTHOSTOMA is a significant southern element, living today from Kamchatka to Hokkaido and Vladovostok (43o-44o N). MACOMA BALTHICA ("cf." here) indicates low-salinity conditions. The other mollusks are good only for making bouillabaisse.
Occurrence(s)
No. Group Name Qty Notes
1 Bivalves Cyclocardia crassidens
2 Bivalves Cyclocardia crebricostata
3 Bivalves Macoma cf. M. balthica
4 Bivalves Macoma sp.
5 Bivalves Serripes laperousii
6 Bivalves Clinocardium ciliatum
7 Bivalves Hiatella arctica
8 Bivalves Mya sp.
9 Bivalves Liocyma fluctuosa
10 Snails Retusa umbilicata
11 Snails Natica (Tectonatica) janthostoma
12 Snails Natica (Cryptonatica) clausa
13 Snails Polinices (Euspira) pallisus
14 Snails Polinices n. sp.?
15 Snails Buccinum sp.
16 Snails Admete cf. A. regina
17 Snails Oenopota cf. O. arctica
18 Snails Oenopota sp.
19 Snails Neptunea sp. e
20 Barnacles Barnacle: fragments