Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 123.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.8° N, 109.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pysht Formation, Chattian (27.3 - 23.0 Ma)
• "upper Oligocene Twin Rivers formation" according to Miller & Downs, 1950. Based on the location, now belongs to the Pysht Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by J. Wyatt Durham; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: A. K. Miller and H. R. Downs. 1950. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement. Journal of Paleontology 24:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180406: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Aturia angustata Conrad 1849 |