UCMP Loc. 7162 - Cowlitz River [Cowlitz Fm]: Bartonian, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Galeodea trituberculata Weaver 1912
Tegland 1931
recombined as Echinophoria trituberculata
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella vaderensis Merriam 1941
Merriam 1941
Turritella uvasana Conrad 1855
Merriam 1941
as Turritella uvasana subsp. olequahensis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia cowlitzensis n. sp. Durham 1942
Durham 1942
Balanophyllia cowlitzensis n. sp. Durham 1943
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Lewis
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 122.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.3° North, 109.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cowlitz
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Cowlitz Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:Corals only
Metadata
Database number:36866
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, J. Marcot Enterer:W. Kiessling, U. Merkel, J. Marcot
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-02-18 02:20:16 Last modified:2019-04-23 16:27:50
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-18 02:20:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9870.1% 21440J. W. Durham. 1943. Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals. Journal of Paleontology 17(2):196-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

30879 J. W. Durham. 1942. Eocene and Oligocene coral faunas of Washington. Journal of Paleontology 16(1):84-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
24235 C. W. Merriam. 1941. Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 26(1):1-214 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
18061 E. A. Nesbitt. 2018. Cenozoic Marine Formations of Washington and Oregon: an annotated catalogue. PaleoBios 35:1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
109721% N. M. Tegland. 1931. The gastropod genus Galeodea in the Oligocene of Washington. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 19(18):397-434 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/K. Koverman]