Fossil Creek (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Wahkiakum County, Washington (46.4° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 111.5° W)

When: Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 28.1 Ma)

• late Eocene or early Oligocene

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Mayr and J. L. Goedert. 2016. New Late Eocene and Oligocene Remains of the Flightless, Penguin-Like Plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) from Western Washington State, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(4):e1163573 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206375: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Suliformes - Plotopteridae
Olympidytes thieli n. gen. n. sp.
Olympidytes thieli n. gen. n. sp. bird