Columbia (SU NP 3) - North Pacific #3 (Hickman 1980) (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Stanford University North Pacific #3

Where: Columbia County, Oregon (45.8° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 111.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Keasey Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Lower member consists of 0-150 m of dark gray, highly micaceous, laminated siltstone and interbedded mudsone. Glaucontitc layers are not uncommon. The Keasey Formation consists of a maximum of 700 m of gray tuffaceous marine siltstone and massive mudstone discontinuously exposed in quaries, road and railway cuts, and along major drainages. The Keasey Fm overlies the late Eocene Cowlitz Fm, and underlies the Pittsburg Bluff Fm. Fm is subdivided into three informal members.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; micaceous, gray siltstone and mudstone

• No general geologic data provided
• Dark gray, highly micaceous, laminated siltstone and interbedded mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections are reposited at Stanford University (SU)

Primary reference: C. S. Hickman. 1980. Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon. Bulletins of American Paleontology 78(310):1-112 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39960: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for gastropoda
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
"Solariella (Machaeroplax) cicca" = Solariella (Solariella) cicca
"Solariella (Machaeroplax) cicca" = Solariella (Solariella) cicca Hickman 1980 snail
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Bathybembix columbiana Dall 1909 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus dilleri Hickman 1980 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turrinosyrinx nodifera Hickman 1976 turrid
Procerapex bentsonae Durham 1944 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae
Exilia bentsonae Hickman 1980 snail