ammonites
South Bight (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Amchitka Island

Where: Alaska (51.4° N, 179.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 179.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: South Bight II Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; unlithified sandstone and unlithified conglomerate

• loose pebbly sand that contains random cobbles and boulders and abundant shell material, including echinoid plates and spines and Foraminifera

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: L. M. Gard, G. E. Lewis, and F. C. Whitmore. 1972. Steller's Sea Cow in Pleistocene interglacial beach deposits on Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. Geological Society of America Bulletin 83:867-870 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52243: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.08.2005