Danian Mollusks from the Prince Creek Formation, Northern Alaska, and Implications for Arctic Ocean Paleogeography
The marine molluscan fauna of the Prince Creek Formation near Ocean Point, northern Alaska, is of Danian age. It is the only diverse and abundant Danian molluscan fauna known from the Arctic Ocean realm, and is the first evidence for an indigenous Paleocene shallow-water biota within a discrete Arct...
Published in: | Journal of Paleontology |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1993
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000062259 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022336000062259 |