Also known as Tyee Formation (Shutter Landing), Lakeside)
Where: Coos County, Oregon (43.5° N, 124.2° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 106.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tyee Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• Collected from a sandy shale lens, which overlies massive micaceous sandstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: J. E. Allen and E.M. Baldwin. 1944. Geology and coal resources of the Coos Bay Quadrangle, Oregon. State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Bulletin 27:1-160 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37871: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Acila decisa Conrad 1855 divaricate nutclam | |
Volsella (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis Weaver and Van Winkle Palmer 1922 mussel | |
Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri Hanna 1927 venus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
"Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilenta" = Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus
"Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilenta" = Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus White 1889 true conch Subspecies: Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilenta
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Turritella uvasana Conrad 1855 turret shell |