Eugene East (UO 2552) - #26 (Hickman) (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UO 2552

Where: Lane County, Oregon (44.1° N, 123.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 110.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eugene Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Eugene Formation can be subdivided faunally: a lower unit correlating to the Keasey Fm, a middle unit correlating to the Gries Ranch Beds of WA, and a upper unit correlated with the Pittsburg Bluff Fm. Thickness of formation may be up to 15,000 feet, but probably around 5,000 feet. Most of the outcrops are scattered so it is difficult to estimate their relative stratigraphic placement

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, tuffaceous, brown, gray, blue sandstone and tuffaceous, brown, gray, blue siltstone

• Tuffaceous and highly feldspathic sandstone or siltstone which is bluish-gray to olive when fresh and weathers to a buff or orange-brown color. Gray sandstone and siltstone beds may range from several to 50 feet in thickness and are interbedded with minor amounts of sandy sahel and clay shale, occasional beds of conglomerate, and thin lenses of gray or buff-colored volcanic ash

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections held at University of Oregon, University of California, Californian Academy of Sciences (CAS), United States Geological Survey (USGS), and Stanford University (NP).

Primary reference: C. J. S. Hickman. 1969. The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon. University of Oregon Museum of Natural History Bulletin 16:1-112 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39000: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana washingtonensis" = Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis
"Nuculana washingtonensis" = Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis Weaver 1916 pointed nut clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista sp. n. sp., "Pitar (Lamelliconcha) clarki" = Lamelliconcha clarki, Pitar (Pitar) sp. n. sp., Pitar (Pitar) dalli
Macrocallista sp. n. sp. Meek 1876 venus clam
"Pitar (Lamelliconcha) clarki" = Lamelliconcha clarki Dickerson 1917 venus clam
Pitar (Pitar) sp. n. sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
Pitar (Pitar) dalli Weaver 1916 venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta parilis Conrad 1848 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Spisula eugenensis" = Mactromeris eugenensis
"Spisula eugenensis" = Mactromeris eugenensis Clark 1925 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Parvicardium eugenense Clark 1925 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma aff. inquinata" = Macoma (Macoma) inquinata Deshayes 1855 tellin clam
Tellina aduncanasa tellin clam
Tellina sp. n. sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Tellina pittsburgensis Clark 1925 tellin clam
Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis Weaver 1916 tellin clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (? Arenomya) kusiroensis Nagao and Inoue 1941 softshell clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sicarius Gould 1850 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Priscofusus sp. n. sp. Conrad 1865 snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
"Perse lincolnensis" = Hemifusus lincolnensis
"Perse lincolnensis" = Hemifusus lincolnensis Winkle 1918 snail
 Neogastropoda - Siphonaliidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Olequahia schencki Durham 1944 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Neverita thomsonae" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail
Polinices washingtonensis Weaver 1916 moon snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula ungana Dall 1908 slipper shell
Calyptraea diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Acrilla (Ferminoscala) dickersoni Durham 1937 wentletrap
Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni Dall 1909 wentletrap
Subspecies: Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni condoni