Salmon River at Cascade Head: Bartonian, Oregon

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Hexanchidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oregon County:Tillamook
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 124.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.3° North, 102.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Bartonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Bartonian
Age range of interval: 41.03 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nestucca
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Narizian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: repository: PSU
Metadata
Database number:126109
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-03-30 01:40:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-30 01:40:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

40955. B. J. Welton. 1974. Heptranchias howellii (Reed, 1946) (Selachii: Hexanchidae) in the Eocene of the United States and British Columbia. PaleoBios 17:1-15 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]