Also known as Turtle Cove

Where: Grant County, Oregon (44.6° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 110.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Turtle Cove Member (John Day Formation), Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)

• Lower Turtle Cove Member including units A, B, C, D, E1, E2, E3, F, and G. Picture Gorge ignimbrite is present between units F and G.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified claystone and volcaniclastic tuff

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: J.X. Samuels. 2021. The first records of Sinclairella (Apatemyidae) from the Pacific Northwest, USA. PaleoBios 38(1):1-7 [N. Famoso/N. Famoso]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 228640: authorized by Nicholas Famoso, entered by Nicholas Famoso on 19.12.2022

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