Sample #93LM3 - Slater Creek Member (Oregon) (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Record 41

Where: Douglas County, Oregon (43.3° N, 123.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 104.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Slater Creek Member (Bushnell Rock Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• From Slater Creek Member of the Bushnell Rock Formation, Umpqua Group. This is equivalent to strata formely referred to as Bushnell Rock Member and Umpqua Formation and time equivalent to Lookingglass Formation. The Slater Creek Member unconformably overlies the Siletz RIver Volcanics and underlies the Tenmile Formation. Macrofossil biostratigraphy suggests a late Early Eocene to early Mid-Eocene age, but the member is more precisely dated as Penutian (C24n/CP10)=Ypresian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• Deposition in shallow water neritic conditions; 50 to 100 m waterdepth.
• Thick-bedded, fine-grained sandstone facies. Presumed to be at least poorly lithified given facies, local tectonics and thickness of overlying strata - but not stated in text.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by L. Marincovich (1993). Collections presumably reposited at USGS Menlo Park or USNM.

Primary reference: R. E. Wells, A. S. Jayko, A.R. Niem, G. Black, T. Wiley, E. Baldwin, K. Molenaar, K.L. Wheeler, C.B. DuRoss and R.W. Givler. 2000. Geologic Map and Database of the Roseburg 30 x 60' Quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-367 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52305: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Presumably identified by L. Marincovich
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Pachycrommium clarki Stewart 1927 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Tejonia ? moragai Stewart 1927 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
"Sassia bilineata" = Fasciolaria bilineata
"Sassia bilineata" = Fasciolaria bilineata Dickerson 1916 tulip snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Bonellitia paucivaricata Gabb 1864 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila sp. Adams and Adams 1858 divaricate nutclam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Microcallista conradiana" = Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana
"Microcallista conradiana" = Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana Gabb 1864 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum
"Nemocardium linteum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum Conrad 1855 cockle
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula dickersoni" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni
"Corbula dickersoni" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni Weaver and Palmer 1922 clam
Mispelled in text as "Cordula"
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes cowlitzensis Weaver and Palmer 1922 mussel
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell