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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Ctenocheles hokoensis n. sp.5
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Callianopsis inornatus n. sp.5
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Brecanclawu rathbunae n. gen. n. sp.5
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Anisospinos berglundi n. sp.3
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"Portunites nodosus n. sp." = Portunites nodosa
"Portunites nodosus n. sp." = Portunites nodosa Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000 crab | |
Mursia aspina n. sp.4
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Paguristes hokoensis n. sp.5
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