Fossil Point (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Cape Blanco

Where: Curry County, Oregon (42.8° N, 124.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 121.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Empire Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• originally identified as Pliocene. Prothero et al. (2001) place the Empire Formation in the Tortonian (Wishkahan, 7.0-8.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified sandstone and unlithified claystone

• subtidal, regression and transgression, to intertidal, some fluvial deposits

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: E. L. Packard. 1947. Fossil baleen from the Pliocene of Cape Blanco, Oregon. Oregon State Monographs Studies in Geology 5:1-8 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57057: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.12.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Dendrasteridae
"Anorthoscutum oregonense" = Anorthoscutum oregonensis1
"Anorthoscutum oregonense" = Anorthoscutum oregonensis1 Clark 1909 sand dollar
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
? Cetotheriidae indet. Brandt 1872 whale
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
? Pontolis magnus2 True 1907 walrus