LSJU Loc. 27 (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Tim Donovan's Ranch near Silvies River

Where: Harvey County, Oregon (43.8° N, 119.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 54.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: None mentioned in text. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: None mentioned in text. AGE: Charmouthian, Middle Lower Jurassic = Pliensbachian.

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, red sandstone

• ENVIRONMENTAL DATA: Not reported in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Dark red sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cunningham; reposited in the CAS

• COLLECTOR: B.L. Cunningham. REPOSITORY: Was Stanford University, but now CAS.

Primary reference: L. G. Hertlein. 1925. New species of marine fossil Mollusca from western North America. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 24:39-44 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207485: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.01.2020

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to typical associated fauna. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, but with a number of taxa identified to species resolution.
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
Pholadomya cf. nevadana Gabb 1870 clam
"Pholadomya multilineata" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) multilineata Gabb 1870 clam
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Anatina sp. Schumacher 1817 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Pecten acutiplicatus" = Weyla (Weyla) meeki
"Pecten acutiplicatus" = Weyla (Weyla) meeki Damborenea 1987 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
"Uptonia silviesi n. sp." = Dubariceras silviesi
"Uptonia silviesi n. sp." = Dubariceras silviesi Hertlein 1925 ammonite