CAS 166, West Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Columbia County, Oregon (46.1° N, 123.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 112.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pittsburg Bluff Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS

Primary reference: H. G. Schenck. 1931. Cephalopods of the genus Aturia from western North America. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 19:435-490 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180444: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia angustata Conrad 1849 nautiloid