A-998 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Oregon (43.3° N, 123.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 104.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: lower Member (Umpqua Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. E. Turner. 1938. Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon. Geological Society of America Special Paper (10)1-130 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200801: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella buwaldana Dickerson 1916 turret shell
subspecies coosensis
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Turricula cooperi Dickerson 1916 snail
subspecies umpquaensis
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Ficopsis meganosensis Clark and Woodford 1927 fig shell
subspecies packardi
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
species A