Twin Rivers, UCMP A3686 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 115.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pysht Formation (Twin River Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

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 208156: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Acila nelsoni" = Nucula (Acila) nelsoni, "Acila gettysburgensis" = Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis
"Acila nelsoni" = Nucula (Acila) nelsoni Clark 1925 divaricate nutclam
"Acila gettysburgensis" = Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis Regan 1909 divaricate nutclam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Echinophoria rex" = Liracassis rex
"Echinophoria rex" = Liracassis rex Tegland 1931 snail