Tom Thumb Mine: Lutetian, Washington
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Hiodontiformes
- Hiodontidae
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Eohiodon woodruffi n. sp.
Wilson 1978
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7 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Washington | County: | Ferry |
| Coordinates: | 48.7° North, 118.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.7° North, 105.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | Mammal zone: | Bridgerian |
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Klondike Mountain | Member: | Tom Thumb Tuff |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: fossils found in lake beds lower and middle units; lower beds are waterlaid tuff with pyroclastic texture. fossils in tuffaceous shales | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 189960 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-11-23 04:00:28 | Last modified: | 2017-11-23 04:00:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-11-23 04:00:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63863. | M. V. H. Wilson. 1978. Eohiodon woodruffi n. sp. (Teleostei, Hiodontidae), from the middle Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation near Republic, Washington. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15(5):679-686 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |