Where: Jackson County, Oregon (42.6° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 76.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: late Early-Middle Albian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 50' to 100' above base of section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Stanton in 1900; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Stanton, 1900. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: D. L. Jones. 1960. Lower Cretaceous (Albian) fossils from southwestern Oregon and their paleogeographic significance. Journal of Paleontology 34(1):152-160 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88612: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.04.2009, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Cleoniceras dilleri n. sp.
? Cleoniceras dilleri n. sp. Jones 1960 ammonite | |
Oxytropidoceras sp. Stieler 1920 ammonite | |
Lyelliceras sp. Spath 1921 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Meekia tumba Saul and Popenoe 1962 clam | |
Megatrigonia (Apiotrigonia) condoni Packard 1921 clam | |
Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) subsulcatus, Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni, Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) sulcatus
Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) subsulcatus Wiltshire 1869 clam
Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni d'Orbigny 1850 clam
Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) sulcatus Parkinson 1819 clam |