USGS Loc. 17879 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Oregon (45.2° N, 123.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 111.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nestucca Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Specimens discovered in blocks from a landslide from the south side of Burnt Ridge (Vokes 1956)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by E. M. Baldwin & A. E. Roberts in 1948

Primary reference: H. E. Vokes. 1956. Notes on the Nucinellidae (Pelecypoda) with description of a new species from the Eocene of Oregon. Journal of Paleontology 30(3):652-671 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201505: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Nucinellidae
Nucinella oregona n. sp. Vokes 1956 Nut Clam
USNM 562007 (holotype)