Middle Fork of Statsop River, west bank (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as USGS 26905
Where: Mason County, Washington (47.3° N, 123.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 111.2° W)
When: Lincoln Creek Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• uppermost Eocene
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); mudstone and sandy siltstone
• wood fall habitat
• massively bedded mudstone to sandy siltstone with concretions common locally, some sandstone beds, and rare conglomerate lenses
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert. 2007. New mollusks associated with biogenic substrates in Cenozoic deepâwater sediments of Washington State. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(1):41-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 205032: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Fucaia humilis n. sp.
Fucaia humilis n. sp. Tsai et al. 2024 whale | |
Gastropoda | |
Colus sekiuensis Kiel and Goedert 2007 true whelk | |
Leptogyra squiresi n. sp.
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