LACMIP 5950 (Oligocene of the United States)
Also known as Shipwreck Point
Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.3° N, 124.4° W: paleocoordinates 48.0° N, 113.6° W)
When: Jansen Creek Member (Makah Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone
• "The limestone is a cold-methane-seep deposit"
• "loc. 15911 is a one-meter-thick limestone block in the Makah Formation.... Limestone block within thin-bedded sandstone and siltstone deposits"
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Goedert, James L. in 1995; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. L. Squires and J. L. Goedert. 1994. A new species of the volutid gastropod Fulgoraria (Musashia) from the Oligocene of Washington. The Veliger 37(4):400-409 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 205210: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Fulgoraria (Musashia) ellenmooreae Squires and Goedert 1994 volute | |