Porter Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP A8724

Where: Washington (46.9° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 113.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Lincoln Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Twenty-foot stratigraphic interval along cliffs

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion, original calcite

Collected by J. W. Durham and V. A. Zullo in 1961; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. W. Durham and V. A. Zullo. 1961. The Genus Bankia Gray (Pelecypoda) in the Oligocene of Washington. 4(1):1-4 [P. Holroyd/S. Tremblay]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194742: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Susan Tremblay on 28.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Bankia lincolnensis n. sp. Durham and Zullo 1961 clam