Naknek Formation
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The Naknek Formation is a Mesozoic geological formation.[1] Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Herriott, Trystan M.; Wartes, Marwan A.; Decker, Paul L. (2015). "Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Upper Jurassic Naknek Formation, cook inlet Forearc Basin, South-Central Alaska" (PDF). Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. Alaska Department of Natural Resources. p. 2. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
The Naknek Formation records Late Jurassic forearc basin sedimentation and crops out discontinuously along an ~1000 km trend in southern Alaska.
- ↑ Weems, R.E.; Blodgett, R.B. (1996). Moore, Thomas E.; Dumoulin, Julie A. (eds.). "The pliosaurid Megalneusaurus; a newly recognized occurrence in the Upper Jurassic Naknek Formation of the Alaska Peninsula" (PDF). Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1994 (2152). United States Geological Survey: 169. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
A fragmentary humerus of the pliosaurid Megalneusaurus, from the Upper Jurassic Naknek Formation of the Alaska Peninsula, represents the only plesiosaurian known from Alaska and only the second Jurassic pliosauroid occurrence reported from the modern Arctic region.
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