LACMVP 5983: Rupelian, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma hannibali (Clark 1925)
Mammalia - Cetacea
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
Modiolidae
Modiolidae indet. Termier and Termier 1950
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Clallam
Coordinates: 48.3° North, 124.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.0° North, 113.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Rupelian
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Makah
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:basinal (siliceous)
Geology comments: deep marine basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Metadata
Database number:45806
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-03 10:49:58 Last modified:2018-12-23 14:11:50
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-03 10:49:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12149. J. L. Goedert, R. L. Squires, and L. G. Barnes. 1995. Paleoecology of whale-fall habitats from deep-water Oligocene rocks, Olympic Peninsula, Washington state. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 118:151-158 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

33838 D. R. Prothero, E. Draus, and C. Burns. 2009. Magnetostratigraphy and Tectonic Rotation of the Eocene-Oligocene Makah and Hoko River Formations, Northwest Washington, USA. International Journal of Geophysics 2009(930612):1-15 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]