Also known as UWBM B-7443

Where: Pacific County, Washington (46.3° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 111.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• In 1954, during the last active quarrying, the limestone was reported as 15 m thick, 68 m in length, and 38 m wide (Danner, 1966). Informal "siltstone of Cliff Point" (Wells, 1989). Age: late Eocene (calcareous nannofossil CP 15b Zone of Okada and Bukry (1980) and benthic foraminiferal Refugian Stage (Goedert and Squires, 1990); temporal equivalent to the lower part of Lincoln Creek Formation. Age confirmed with Nesbitt 2018.

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: J. L. Goedert and R. L. Squires. 1990. Eocene deep-sea communities in localized limestones formed by subduction-related methane seeps, southwestern Washington . Geology 18:1182-1185 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191203: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.01.2018, edited by Mark Uhen

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