UW #681 - Pillar Point (Blakeley Formation) (Oligocene of the United States)

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

• Marine sandstones.
• 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

• Nomenclature validated by C.E. Weaver.
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
"Thyasira disjuncta" = Conchocele bisecta
"Thyasira disjuncta" = Conchocele bisecta Conrad 1849 clam
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Pecten (Propeamussium) clallamensis" = Propeamussium clallamensis
"Pecten (Propeamussium) clallamensis" = Propeamussium clallamensis Arnold 1906 mud scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae