Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 115.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pysht Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• Presumably from the Pysht Formation, based on its location
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CAS
Primary reference: H. G. Schenck. 1931. Cephalopods of the genus Aturia from western North America. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 19:435-490 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166391: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 11.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Aturia angustata Conrad 1849 nautiloid |