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 | |
Cetopirus polysyrinx Collareta et al. 2022 whale barnacle |