mouth of Whiskey Creek: Late Eocene, Washington
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana (aff. Nuculana) grasslei
Allen 1993
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Solemyidae
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Thyasiridae
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Conchocele bisecta
(Conrad 1849)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Vesicomyidae
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Vesicomya (Calyptogena) sp.
(Dall 1891)
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Nodosariata
- Vaginulinida
- Vaginulinidae
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Nodosariata
- Nodosariida
- Nodosariidae
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Dentalina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Nodosariata
- Polymorphinida
- Plectofrondiculariidae
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Plectofrondicularia cf. vaughani
Cushman 1927
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Nodosariata
- Polymorphinida
- Polymorphinidae
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Chilostomellidae
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Cassidulinidae
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Uvigerinidae
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Uvigerina garzaensis
Cushman and Siegfus 1939
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Buliminidae
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Lituolida
- Haplophragmoididae
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Haplophragmoides sp.
Cushman 1910
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Lituolida
- Lituolidae
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Cyclammina sp.
Brady 1876
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Globigerinidae
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Involutinidae
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Valvulinidae
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Ataxophragmiidae
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Hauerinidae
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Quinqueloculina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Miliolidae
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Globothalamea
- Rotaliida
- Gavelinellidae
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Gyroidina orbicularis
d'Orbigny 1865
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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] |