Twin Rivers, UCMP A3690 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 115.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Twin Rivers Formation, 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 208160: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Surculites "sp. B" Conrad 1865 turrid
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia angustata Conrad 1849
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Pecten clallamensis" = Propeamussium clallamensis
"Pecten clallamensis" = Propeamussium clallamensis Arnold 1906 mud scallop
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia hannai" = Cyclocardia hannai
"Venericardia hannai" = Cyclocardia hannai Tegland 1933 clam