ammonites
Mysic subterrane of Farewell terrane (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Alaska (62.5° N, 152.9° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 78.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unnamed Formation, Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; ferruginous, brown sandstone

• Unit is part of an accreted terrane that originated in Gondwana

Collection methods: Imlay unpublished field report used to generate most of faunal list and appears to be the collector of the original material in 1975

Primary reference: M. R. Sandy and R. B. Blodgett. 2000. Early Jurassic spiriferid brachiopods from Alaska and their paleogeographic significance. PaleoBios 33(3):319-328 [S. Peters/S. Peters] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55488: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 27.10.2005