Shipwreck Point, LACMIP 8233: Early Oligocene, Washington
collected by Goedert, James L. 1995
| Country: | United States |
State/province: | Washington |
County: | Clallam |
| Coordinates: |
48.3° North, 124.4° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.4° North, 107.4° West (Wright 2013) |
| Period: | Paleogene |
Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early Oligocene |
| Age range of interval: | 33.9 - 27.3 m.y. ago |
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: "loc. 15911 is a one-meter-thick limestone block in the Makah Formation.... Limestone block within thin-bedded sandstone and siltstone deposits" |
| Environment: | deep-water indet. |
| Geology comments: "The limestone is a cold-methane-seep deposit" |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
| Collectors: | Goedert, James L. |
Collection dates: | 1995 |
| Also known as: | USGS 26895; UWBM B-7444 |
| Database number: | 205036 |
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen |
Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen |
Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-10-03 12:02:44 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2019-10-03 12:02:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 70366. | | S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert. 2007. New mollusks associated with biogenic substrates in Cenozoic deep−water sediments of Washington State. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(1):41-52 [M. Uhen/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] |
| 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] |
| 44923 | decapod | C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann. 2001. New Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans from western North America. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 28:173-210 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Uhen] |
| 70722 | | R. W. Wieder and R. M. Feldmann. 1989. Palaega goedertorum, a Fossil Isopod (Crustacea) from Late Eocene to Early Miocene Rocks of Washington State. Journal of Paleontology 63(1):73-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |