UCMP loc. A-696, Basket Point on Umpqua River (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Oregon (43.5° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 107.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Flournoy Formation (Umpqua Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• originally upper Umpqua Formation

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. E. Turner. 1938. Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon. Geological Society of America Special Paper (10)1-130 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200893: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices hornii Gabb 1864 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"cf. Isocardia tejonensis" = Nitidavenus tejonensis
"cf. Isocardia tejonensis" = Nitidavenus tejonensis Waring 1914 venus clam
 Solenida - Solenidae