Where: Coos County, Oregon (43.4° N, 124.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 123.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Merced Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Merced Fm, which overlies faulted older Tertiary and Mesozoic rocks. THICKNESS: Only a few feet. AGE: Miocene-Pliocene according to Arnold and Hannibal (1913). More recent publications indicate a Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal conglomerate and sandstone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, sandy conglomerate and unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: H. Hannibal (c 1910's). REPOSITORY: Unknown, not stated.

Primary reference: R. Arnold and H. Hannibal. 1913. The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 52(212):559-605 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71106: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.04.2007

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