N. P. 51 Porter Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Grays Harbor County, Washington (46.9° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 112.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1942. Eocene and Oligocene coral faunas of Washington. Journal of Paleontology 16(1):84-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91608: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia hannibali n. sp. Nomland 1916 stony coral