mouth of Whiskey Creek: Late Eocene, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Conchocele bisecta (Conrad 1849)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Nodosariata - Polymorphinida - Plectofrondiculariidae
Nodosariata - Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Chilostomellidae
Cassidulinidae
Uvigerinidae
Uvigerina garzaensis Cushman and Siegfus 1939
Buliminidae
Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Cyclammina sp. Brady 1876
Globigerinidae
Involutinidae
Valvulinidae
Ataxophragmiidae
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gyroidina orbicularis d'Orbigny 1865
spp. planata
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Clallam
Coordinates: 48.1° North, 123.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.8° North, 104.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Late Eocene
Age range of interval: 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:169032
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-05-05 09:33:04 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-08-05 09:33:04
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
55218. J. L. Goedert, V. Thiel, O. Schmale, W. W. Rau, W. Michaelis and J. Peckmann. 2003. The Late Eocene ‘Whiskey Creek’ methane-seep deposit (western Washington State). Facies 48(1):223-239 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]