UCMP Loc. 7162 - Cowlitz River [Cowlitz Fm] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Lewis County, Washington (46.4° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 109.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cowlitz Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Lower Cowlitz Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1943. Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals. Journal of Paleontology 17(2):196-202 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36866: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.02.2004, edited by Uta Merkel and Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals only
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella uvasana2 Conrad 1855 turret shell
as Turritella uvasana subsp. olequahensis
Turritella vaderensis2 Merriam 1941 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Galeodea trituberculata" = Echinophoria trituberculata3
"Galeodea trituberculata" = Echinophoria trituberculata3 Weaver 1912 snail
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia cowlitzensis n. sp.1 Durham 1942 stony coral
Balanophyllia cowlitzensis n. sp. Durham 1943 stony coral