Where: Jefferson County, Washington (48.1° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 111.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marrowstone Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• "Turritella porterensis zone of Marrowstone shale (middle Oligocene)." Map in Armentrout & Berta (1977) places this site in the Marrowstone Formation. On the basis of magnetostratigraphy, Prothero et al. (2009) assigned the Marrowstone to the earliest Oligocene (Chron C13n) and placed the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the underlying Quimper Formation. Armentrout & Berta (1977) assigned an upper Refugian age on the basis of benthic foraminifera and correlated it with the early Oligocene.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, silty shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Wyatt Durham; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: A. K. Miller and H. R. Downs. 1950. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement. Journal of Paleontology 24:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180419: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2016, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Aturia cf. grandior Schenck 1931 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turcicula arnoldi n. sp." = Bathybembix arnoldi1
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"Bruclarkia columbianum" = Bruclarkia columbiana1
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? Nekewis scowensis n. sp.1
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"Irenosyrinx marowstonensis n. sp." = Aforia1
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"Irenosyrinx marrowstonensis n. sp." = Turrinosyrinx marrowstonensis1, Surculites "sp. A"1, Acamptogenotia (Surculites) sp.2
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Bivalvia | |
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"Palliolum vanwinkleae" = Pecten vanwinkleae1
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"? Lucina acutilineata" = Lucinoma acutilineata1
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"Venericardia hannibali" = Cyclocardia (Cyclocardia) hannibali1
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