Where: Oregon (46.0° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 111.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Keasey Formation, Priabonian to Priabonian (38.0 - 28.1 Ma)
• Age after Nesbitt (2018).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1973. Ossicle morphology of some recent asteroids and description of some West American fossil asteroids. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 104:1-59 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59920: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 20.04.2006, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Goniasteridae indet., Nehalemia delicata n. gen. n. sp.
Goniasteridae indet. Forbes 1841 sea star
Nehalemia delicata n. gen. n. sp. Blake 1973 sea star | |
"Mistia spinosa n. gen. n. sp." = Nearchaster spinosus
"Mistia spinosa n. gen. n. sp." = Nearchaster spinosus Blake 1973 sea star | |
Astropecten sp. Gray 1840 sea star | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Orthechinorhinus davidae Welton 2016 shark |