UCMP B7380, Cape Blanco (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Curry County, Oregon (42.8° N, 124.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 124.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Port Orford Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Chibanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: A. Collareta, M. Bosselaers, P. A. Holroyd and A. A. Dineen. 2022. A forgotten cirripedological gem: a new species of whale barnacle of the genus Cetopirus from the Pleistocene of the United States West Coast. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 114:41-48 [M. Uhen/E. Medeiros/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227922: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Coronulidae
Cetopirus polysyrinx Collareta et al. 2022 whale barnacle