Where: North Slope County, Alaska (68.3° N, 165.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 58.1° N, 35.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otuk Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Otuk = "Shublik" Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: N. J. Silberling, J. A. Grant-Mackie, and K. M. Nichols. 1997. The Late Triassic bivalve Monotis in accreted terranes of Alaska. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2151:1-21 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85131: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Halobia sp. Bronn 1830 oyster | |
Monotis (Eomonotis) sp., Monotis (Eomonotis) cf. typica, Monotis (Eomonotis) cf. jakutica, Monotis (Eomonotis) aff. obtusicostata, Monotis (Entomonotis) ? pachypleura, Monotis (Pacimonotis) aff. subcircularis
Monotis (Eomonotis) sp. Grant-Mackie 1978 scallop
Monotis (Eomonotis) cf. typica Kiparisova 1936 scallop
Monotis (Eomonotis) cf. jakutica Teller 1896 scallop
Monotis (Eomonotis) aff. obtusicostata Westermann 1966 scallop
Monotis (Entomonotis) ? pachypleura Teller 1886 scallop
Monotis (Pacimonotis) aff. subcircularis Gabb 1864 scallop |