Also known as UW 256

Where: Lewis County, Washington (46.7° N, 123.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 114.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lincoln Creek Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Considered to be Middle Oligocene in Moore (1976)

•originally identified as Blakely Formation, but Hickman (1976) lists it as Oligocene Lincoln Creek

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CAS, UW

• No collection data reported. University of Washington locality; type material reposited in UW and CAS.

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 52380: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2005, edited by Mark Uhen

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