Where: Lincoln County, Oregon (44.6° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 116.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Nye Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: K. Shimada, B. J. Welton, and D. J. Long. 2014. A new fossil megamouth shark (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae) from the Oligocene-Miocene of the western United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):281-290 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169440: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 26.05.2015

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