Where: Washington (47.7° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 103.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Crescent Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Late early Eocene; Penutian stage
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires, J. L. Goedert, and K. L. Kaler. 1992. Paleontology and stratigraphy of Eocene rocks at Pulali Point, Jefferson County, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 146900: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
? Trochocyathus nomlandi Bentson 1943 stony coral | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Brachidontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
"Glycymeridae indet." = Glycymerididae
"Glycymeridae indet." = Glycymerididae Newton 1922 clam | |
Ostrea ? sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anomiidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 scallop | |
Corbula (cf. Caryocorbula) dickersoni Weaver and Van Winkle Palmer 1922 clam | |
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle | |
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis Gabb 1864 moon snail
Polinices (Polinices) gesteri Dickerson 1916 moon snail
Tejonia moragai Stewart 1927 moon snail | |
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Volutidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 volute
Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica Cooper 1894 volute | |
? Falsifusus marysvillensis Merriam and Turner 1937 snail | |
Cassidae indet. Latreille 1825 snail | |
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Pachycrommium clarki Stewart 1927 snail | |
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Cylichnina tantilla Anderson and Hanna 1925 snail | |
Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus Gabb 1864 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hemithiris reagani Hertlein and Grant IV 1944 |