UWBM B8951 Satsop Weatherwax: Lutetian, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
2 specimens
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
? Colus sp. Röding 1798
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Provannidae
6 specimens
230 specimens
>230 specimens
Gastropoda - Neomphalida - Peltospiridae
Depressigyra sp. Warén and Bouchet 1989
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neritidae
25 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Hyalogyrinidae
Hyalogyrina sp. Marshall 1988
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Orbitestellidae
2 specimens
Polyplacophora - Leptochitonidae
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
300 specimens
>300 specimens
Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
5 specimens
"Serpulid tube fragments"
Lingulata - Discinida - Disciniidae
Discinisca sp. Gray 1840
1 specimen
unclassified
2 specimens
"echinoid spines"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Grays Harbor
Coordinates: 47.3° North, 123.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.1° North, 98.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Lutetian
Age range of interval: 48.07 - 41.03 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Humptulips
Stratigraphy comments: basal part of Humptulips Formation, possibly from basal boulder conglomerate
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Cold-seep carbonate
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,acetic,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:198636
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-01-01 01:11:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-01-01 01:11:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

67659. F. Hybertsen and S. Kiel. 2018. A middle Eocene seep deposit with silicified fauna from the Humptulips Formation in western Washington State, USA . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(4):751-768 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

18061 E. A. Nesbitt. 2018. Cenozoic Marine Formations of Washington and Oregon: an annotated catalogue. PaleoBios 35:1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]