Bullman Creek, LACMIP 15622: Early Oligocene, Washington
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Foraminifera indet.
Eichwald 1830
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Vesicomyidae
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Thyasiridae
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| Hryniewicz et al. 2017 | 9 specimens | ||||||
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Thyasira sp.
Lamarck 1818
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Washington | County: | Clallam |
| Coordinates: | 48.3° North, 124.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.4° North, 107.5° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| 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 |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Makah | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: middle part of Makah Formation, directly below the Jansen Creek Member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: Thin slabs of turbidite sandstone and pebble conglomerate in dark mudstone in toe of a landslide | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 172000 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-24 06:13:23 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-24 06:13:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55866. | J. L. Goedert and R. L. Squires. 1993. First Oligocene records of Calyptogena (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae). The Veliger 36(1):72-77 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 33838 | D. R. Prothero, E. Draus, and C. Burns. 2009. Magnetostratigraphy and Tectonic Rotation of the Eocene-Oligocene Makah and Hoko River Formations, Northwest Washington, USA. International Journal of Geophysics 2009(930612):1-15 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |