UWBM B8951 Satsop Weatherwax (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Grays Harbor County, Washington (47.3° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° N, 107.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Humptulips Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• basal part of Humptulips Formation, possibly from basal boulder conglomerate

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Cold-seep carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve,

Primary reference: F. Hybertsen and S. Kiel. 2018. A middle Eocene seep deposit with silicified fauna from the Humptulips Formation in western Washington State, USA . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(4):751-768 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198636: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 01.01.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echnoidea indet.
"echinoid spines"
Lingulata
 Discinida - Disciniidae
Discinisca sp. Gray 1840
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
"Serpulid tube fragments"
Gastropoda
  -
 Heterostropha - Hyalogyrinidae
Hyalogyrina sp. Marshall 1988 snail
 Heterostropha - Orbitestellidae
Orbitestella dioi Hybertsen and Kiel 2018 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Thalassonerita eocenica Squires and Goedert 1996 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Provannidae
Desbruyeresia belliatus Hybertsen and Kiel 2018 snail
>230 specimens
Provanna fortis Hybertsen and Kiel 2018 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
? Colus sp. Röding 1798 true whelk
 Neomphalida - Peltospiridae
Depressigyra sp. Warén and Bouchet 1989 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana acutilineata Hybertsen and Kiel 2018 pointed nut clam
>300 specimens
 Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
Vesicomyidae indet. Dall 1908 clam
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818 clam
Polyplacophora
 Neoloricata - Leptochitonidae
Leptochiton terryiverseni Hybertsen and Kiel 2018 chiton