Canyon River, CR3: Chattian, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762
Kiel and Goedert 2006
Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Chitonidae
Leptochiton alveolus (Loven 1846)
"some"
Gastropoda - Solariellidae
? Solariella sp. Wood 1842
Peckmann et al. 2002
Gastropoda - Neomphalida - Peltospiridae
? Depressigyra sp. Warén and Bouchet 1989
Kiel 2006
Gastropoda - Neomphalida - Neomphalidae
? Depressigyra statura n. sp. Goedert and Benham 1999
Goedert and Benham 1999
Retiskenea statura (Goedert and Benham 1999)
Kiel 2006
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Scaphandridae
Scaphandridae indet. Sars 1878
Peckmann et al. 2002
Gastropoda - Eulimidae
? Eulimidae indet. Philippi 1853
Kiel 2006
Gastropoda - Provannidae
Provanna antiqua Squires 1995
"abundant"
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Kiel and Goedert 2006
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
Xanthodaphne campbellae n. sp. Kiel 2006
Kiel 2006
Gastropoda - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsidae indet. Adams and Adams 1853
Kiel 2006
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Kiel and Goedert 2006
Bathymodiolus willapaensis (Squires and Goedert 1991)
Kiel 2006
Bathymodiolus satsopensis Kiel and Amano 2013
Kiel and Amano 2013
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
? Pliocardia sp. Woodring 1925
Amano and Kiel 2007
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Conchocele bisecta (Conrad 1849)
Peckmann et al. 2002
Conchocele taylori Hickman 2015
Hryniewicz et al. 2017 3 specimens
unclassified
Solariellinidae indet.
Kiel 2006
Margaritidae indet.
Peckmann et al. 2002
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Tretodictyidae
? Hexactinella conica n. sp.
? Hexactinella tubula n. sp.
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Eurete ? geoderti
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Farreidae
? Farrea sp. Bowerbank 1862
Protozoa
Radiolaria indet. Müller 1858
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Grays Harbor
Coordinates: 47.3° North, 123.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.0° North, 114.6° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Oligocene
Key time interval: Chattian
Age range of interval: 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lincoln Creek
Stratigraphy comments: "lower part of upper Oligocene part of the formation"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous,cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Geology comments: "upper bathyal depths in cool to cold water", "sponges preserved as silica in a localized cherty and botryoidal, calcareous cement-filled limestone formed at bathyal depths by bacterial oxidation of methane at a cold seep"; whale fall; methane-seep
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:LACM
Taxonomic list comments:no comprehensive list appears to have been published
Metadata
Also known as:LACMIP 16504, UWBM B6706
Database number:4869
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen, W. Kiessling Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Krause, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-27 17:22:03 Last modified:2019-10-29 18:17:53
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-27 17:22:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
290. J. K. Rigby and J. L. Goedert. 1996. Fossil sponges from a localized cold-seep limestone in Oligocene rocks of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Journal of Paleontology 70(6):900-908 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

61677 K. Amano and S. Kiel. 2007. Fossil Vesicomyid Bivalves from the North Pacific Region . The Veliger 49(4):270-293 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]
70407 J. L. Goedert and S. R. Benham. 1999. A new species of Depressigyra? (Gastropoda: Peltospiridae) from cold-seep carbonates in Eocene and Oligocene rocks of western Washington . The Veliger 42(2):112-116 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
70596 J. L. Goedert, J. Peckmann, and J. Reitner. 2000. Worm Tubes in an Allochthonous Cold-Seep Carbonate from Lower Oligocene Rocks of Western Washington. Journal of Paleontology 74(6):992-999 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
64542 K. Hryniewicz, K. Amano, R. G. Jenkins and S. Kiel. 2017. Thyasirid bivalves from Cretaceous and Paleogene cold seeps. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(4):705-728 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]
63333 S. Kiel. 2006. New records and species of molluscs from Tertiary cold-seep carbonates in Washington State, USA. Journal of Paleontology 80(1):121-137 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
70408 S. Kiel and K. Amano. 2013. The earliest bathymodiolin mussels: An Evaluatio of Eocene and Oligocene taxa from deep-sea methane seep deposits in Western Washington State. Journal of Paleontology 87(4):589-602 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
24320 S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert. 2006. Deep-sea food bonanzas: early Cenozoic whale-fall communities resemble wood-fall rather than seep communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:2625-2631 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
70694 J. Peckmann, J. L. Goedert, V. Thiel, W. Michaelis, and J. Reitners. 2002. A comprehensive approach to the study of methane-seep deposits from the Lincoln Creek Formation, western Washington State, USA. Sedimentology 49:855-873 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
65880 R. L. Squires and J. L. Goedert. 1995. An extant species of Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in Eocene and Oligocene cold-seep limestones, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. The Veliger 38(1):47-53 [P. Holroyd/E. Orzechowski/E. Orzechowski]