Also known as Pillar Point

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 115.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• SPECIFIC STRATIGRAPHY: Monterey shale and sandstone. GENERAL STRATIGRAPHY: The Clallam Formation is a predominantly marine sandstone with minor conglomerate and siltstone exposed along the Strait of Juan de Fuca in northwestern Washington. Marine molluscs occur throughout the 600 to 800 m thick formation but are especially abundant in the lowermost 240 m. Pillarian Stage age, a provincial time stratigraphic unit of late early Miocene age. Revised to Chattian following more recent work [Hendy, 7/2016].

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Hannibal in 1912; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• REPOSITORY: Stanford University, now California Academy of Sciences.

Primary reference: W.O. Addicott. 1976. Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 976:1-44 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37586: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.03.2004

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