Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 115.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blakeley Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• In marine sandstones
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM, UW
• No collection data reported. University of Washing locality; type material reposited in USNM
Primary reference: C. E. Weaver. 1942. Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington. University of Washington Publications in Geology 5:1-789 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52376: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Thyasira disjuncta" = Conchocele bisecta
"Thyasira disjuncta" = Conchocele bisecta Conrad 1849 clam | |
"Pecten (Propeamussium) clallamensis" = Propeamussium clallamensis
"Pecten (Propeamussium) clallamensis" = Propeamussium clallamensis Arnold 1906 mud scallop | |
Pecten (Propeamussium) waylandi Cooke 1919 scallop |