CSUN Loc. 1514 - Pulali Point [Crescent Fm] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Washington (47.7° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crescent Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Late early Eocene; Penutian stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; sandstone

• sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: R. L. Squires, J. L. Goedert, and K. L. Kaler. 1992. Paleontology and stratigraphy of Eocene rocks at Pulali Point, Jefferson County, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146903: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredo ? sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Euryplacidae
"Glyphithyreus weaveri" = Orbitoplax weaveri
"Glyphithyreus weaveri" = Orbitoplax weaveri Rathbun 1926 crab