Port Hadlock Bay (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Washington (48.0° N, 122.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 113.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Gries Ranch Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1944. Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27:101 -212 [P. Holroyd/E. Orzechowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 208138: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hydrozoa
 Stylasterina -
Stylaster milleri Durham 1942 lace coral
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Terebratalia sp. Beecher 1893
 Rhynchonellida - Hemithirididae
Hemithiris "sp. A" d'Orbigny 1847
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Epitonium condoni Dall 1909 wentletrap
subspecies oregonense
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Homalopoma coombsi n. sp. Durham 1944 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium porterensis Weaver 1912 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea lincolnensis" = Phygraea lincolnensis
"Ostrea lincolnensis" = Phygraea lincolnensis Weaver 1916 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea griesensis" = Acutostrea griesensis
"Ostrea griesensis" = Acutostrea griesensis Effinger 1938 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten porterensis" = Vertipecten porterensis
"Pecten porterensis" = Vertipecten porterensis Weaver 1912 scallop