Slip Point Lighthouse: Aquitanian, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora
Stirton 1960 2 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodelphinidae
Nelson and Uhen 2018 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squaloziphiidae
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Barnes and Goedert 2001 1 specimen
Desmostylus or Vanderhoofius
Domning 2008
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Barnes and Goedert 2001 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington County:Clallam
Coordinates: 48.3° North, 124.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.6° North, 112.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Aquitanian
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 20.45 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Clallam
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: early Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP,USNM
Taxonomic list comments:Slip Point fauna
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V5761, LACM 5933
Database number:45481
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:N. Pyenson, M. Nelson, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-25 08:34:48 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-25 08:34:48
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11885. C. Muizon. 1990. A new Ziphiidae (Cetacea) from the Early Miocene of Washington State (USA) and phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of odontocetes. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 4e Serie. Section C. Sciences de la Terre. Paleontologie, Geologie, Mineralogie 12(3-4):279-326 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

15066 L. G. Barnes and J. L. Goedert. 1996. Marine vertebrate paleontology on the Olympic Peninsula. Washington Geology 24(3):17-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
16716 L. G. Barnes and J. L. Goedert. 2001. Stratigraphy and paleoecology of Oligocene and Miocene desmostylian occurrences in Western Washington State, U.S.A. Bulletin of the Ashoro Museum of Paleontology 2:7-22 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
30424 D. P. Domning. 2008. Desmostylia. In C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, M. D. Uhen (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume II 640-645 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
65398 M. D. Nelson and M. D. Uhen. 2018. First occurrence of a squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Washington State. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology [M. Uhen/M. Nelson]
16542 D. R. Prothero and C. Burns. 2001. Magnetic stratigraphy and tectonic rotation of the upper Oligocene-?Lower Miocene (type Pillarian Stage) Clallam Formation, Clallam County, Washington. Pacific Section SEPM 91:234-241 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
64855 R. A. Stirton. 1960. A marine carnivore from the Clallam Miocene Formation Washington. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(7):345-368 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
16750 R. H. Tedford, L. G. Barnes, and C. E. Ray. 1994. The early Miocene littoral ursoid carnivoran Kolponomos: Systematics and mode of life. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:11-32 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]