Where: Pacific County, Washington (46.6° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 112.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lincoln Creek Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• "Keasey equivalent" beds, likely the Lincoln Creek Formation. Given the location, it is probably from the lower part of the stratigraphy and of early Oligocene (or perhaps late Eocene) age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; micaceous, gray siltstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP, USNM
Collection methods: quarrying
• Collections are reposited in UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)
Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1937. Gastropods of the Family Epitoniidae from Mesozoic and Cenozoic Rocks of the West Coast of North America, including One New Species by F. E. Turner and One by R. A. Bramkamp. Journal of Paleontology 11(6):479-512 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39965: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aturia cf. grandior4 Schenck 1931 | |
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Opalia (Opalia) rugifera wentletrap | |
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Anthozoa | |
Stephanocyathus holcombensis n. sp.1
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Flabellum hertleini n. sp.1
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