mouth of Whiskey Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.1° N, 123.8° W: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 111.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169032: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
 Polymorphinida - Plectofrondiculariidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gyroidina orbicularis d'Orbigny 1865
spp. planata
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Cyclammina sp. Brady 1876
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
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  - Chilostomellidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Textulariacea - Valvulinidae
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Martinottiella communis Huang et al. 2019
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
Uvigerina garzaensis Cushman and Siegfus 1939
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus (Modiolus) willapaensis" = Bathymodiolus willapaensis
"Modiolus (Modiolus) willapaensis" = Bathymodiolus willapaensis Squires and Goedert 1991 mussel
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Conchocele bisecta Conrad 1849 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Cryptolucina megadyseides Saul et al. 1996 clam
 Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
"Acharax dalli" = Solemya dalli
"Acharax dalli" = Solemya dalli Clark 1925 Awning Clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (aff. Nuculana) grasslei Allen 1993 pointed nut clam