Also known as RB32

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.4° N, 124.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 112.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hoko River Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Rau (1964) studied the benthic foraminiferal fauna of the Hoko River Formation (then known as the lower member of the Twin River Formation) and assigned the formation to the northeastern Pacific provincial benthic foraminiferal upper Narizian Stage (late Eocene).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, concretionary siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by R.E. Berglund; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 2000. New fossil portunids from Washington, USA, and Argentina and a re-evaluation of generic and family relationships within the Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Paleontology 74(4):636-653 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202365: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.07.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

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