Alaskan Fossils

Cephalopods

I found this ammonite deep in the Talkeetna Mountains in the 1990s. When I moved it, I thought it must weigh over a hundred pounds, so I asked my friend Raymond to help me in getting the monster out. The location was about twenty miles from the nearest road, so that meant backpacking it all the way--no cheating even with an all terrain vehicle. It took four days, but we got it out in one piece. When we finally got it onto the scales, it weighed in at 140 pounds! Since then, it has been on display at the Alaska Museum of Natural History in Anchorage.


P A L E O Z O I C

period Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Permian
formation  


M E S O Z O I C

period T r i a s s i c
series Lower Middle Upper
stage Scythian Anisian Ladinian Carnian Norian Rhaetian
formation  

per J u r a s s i c
ser Lower Middle Upper
sta Hettangian Sinemurian Pliensbachian Toarcian Aalenian Bajocian Bathonian Callovian Oxfordian Kimmeridgian Tithonian
fm   Talkeetna   Tuxedni Bowser Chinitna Naknek Formation  

per C r e t a c e o u s
ser Lower Upper
sta Ryazanian Valanginian Hauterivian Barremian Aptian Albian Cenomanian Turonian Coniacian Santonian Campanian | Maastrichtian
fm   Nelchina   Matanuska Formation
©2001 Curvin Metzler