Where: Grays Harbor County, Washington (47.3° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 51.3° N, 104.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Crescent Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, green, argillaceous conglomerate and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and J. L. Goedert. 1994. Macropaleontology of the Eocene Crescent Formation in the Little River Area, Southern Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 444:1-32 [A. Miller/K. Layou/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5546: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 12.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Aporolepas sp. Withers 1953 barnacle | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Acila decisa Conrad 1855 divaricate nutclam | |
"Glycymeris sagittata" = Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata
"Glycymeris sagittata" = Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata Gabb 1864 clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Nayadina batequensis Squires 1990 oyster | |
Spondylus carlosensis Anderson 1905 scallop | |
Parvamussium sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle | |
Gastropoda | |
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail | |
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Erginus vaderensis Lindberg 1979 limpet | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Gryphus ? sp. Megerle von Mühlfeld 1811 | |
Sedentaria | |
"Rotularia tejonense" = Rotularia (Rotularia) tejonense
"Rotularia tejonense" = Rotularia (Rotularia) tejonense Arnold 1909 |