Also known as State Wayside Park, Lost Creek State Recreation Site

Where: Lincoln County, Oregon (44.5° N, 124.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 116.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Nye Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• early Miocene, molluscan Pillarian Stage, Saucesian Benthic Foraminiferal Stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: D. P. Domning and C. E. Ray. 1986. The earliest sirenian (Mammalia: Dugongidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Mammal Science 2(4):263-276 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 64777: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.09.2006, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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