Type Blakeley (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP A3671

Where: Kitsap County, Washington (47.6° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 113.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Blakeley Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208163: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Sclerhelia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Eusmilia bainbridgensis Durham 1942 stony coral
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia angustata Conrad 1849 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Nemocardium lorenzanum" = Anechinocardium lorenzanum
"Nemocardium lorenzanum" = Anechinocardium lorenzanum Arnold 1908 cockle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Palliolum vanwinkleae" = Pecten vanwinkleae
"Palliolum vanwinkleae" = Pecten vanwinkleae Clark 1925 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima "sp. B" Bruguière 1797 file clam