Newport (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Oregon (44.6° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 114.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. New fossil corals from the Pacific coast. University of California Publications in Geology 10(13):185-190 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122276: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Astreopora occidentalis n. sp. Nomland 1917 stony coral