Also known as USGS 645, USGS 646
Where: King County, Washington (47.4° N, 122.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 106.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Raging River Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)
• Formely included in Puget Group, but regarded as distinct due to lack of coal facies. Oldest sedimentary rocks in the Tiger Mountain-Taylor Mountain upland area. MacNeil (written communication) stated that there was little doubt this is a middle Eocene fauna. Probably equivalent to part of the McIntosh Formation of western Washington.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• No repository for collection listed, but likely to be USNM.
Primary reference: J. D. Vine. 1969. Geology and coal resources of the Cumberland. Hobart, and Maple Valley Quadrangles, King County, Washington. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 624:1-67 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43346: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella aff. vaderensis Merriam 1941 turret shell | |
Sinum aff. occidentalis moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Pitar ? sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Tellina ? soledadensis Hanna 1927 tellin clam | |
"Gari aff. hornii" = Gari (Gobraeus) hornii
"Gari aff. hornii" = Gari (Gobraeus) hornii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Venericardia sp., "Venericardia (Pacificor) cf. weaveri" = Venericardia (Pacificor) clarki
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
"Venericardia (Pacificor) cf. weaveri" = Venericardia (Pacificor) clarki Weaver and Palmer 1922 clam also V. (P.) cf. lira
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Acila (Truncacila) ? decisa Conrad 1855 divaricate nutclam | |
Nuculana aff. cowlitzensis Weaver and Palmer 1922 pointed nut clam |