Lincoln (UGSG 18903) - #137 (Moore, 1963) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Locality #137 (Moore, 1963); USGS 18903

Where: Lincoln County, Oregon (44.7° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 119.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Astoria Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• From an unknown horizon. Astoria Formation has been used as a name for almost all of the marine middle Miocene sedimentary rocks of Washington and Oregon although these correlations are poorly constrained. The formation has been divided into three members: a lower sandstone, a shale, and an upper sandstone. These rocks form the northern limb of a syncline, the asis of which is exposed east of Astoria, and the syncline trends NE and plunges to the SW. The Astoria Formation is intermittently exposed; theya re faulted and exposures are interupted by volcanic rocks and slides. The maximum thickness of any exposure is 25 feet.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, concretionary, calcareous siltstone

• Astoria Formtaion is faulted and interupted in exposure by volcanic rocks and land slides.
• From massive siltstone. Strata exposed consist of shale varying in silt and sand content, siltstone, fine-grained sandstone with varying amounts of silt, coarse-grained sandstone, conglomerate, and tuff. Calcareous silty shale and fine-grained silty sandstone generally predominate.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion, replaced with other

Reposited in the CAS, USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

• Collected by E.J. Moore, 1952. Collections reside in the Californian Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Museum, and presumably the USGS.

Primary reference: E. J. Moore. 1963. Miocene marine mollusks from the Astoria Formation in Oregon. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 419 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39703: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Opalia (Rugatiscala) cf. williamsoni Anderson and Martin 1914 wentletrap
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Megasurcula cf. condonana Anderson and Martin 1914 turrid
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata
"Macoma arctata" = Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata Conrad 1849 tellin clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Rhabdidae
Dentalium (Rhabdus) schencki Moore 1964 tusk shell