Shaly sandstone beach from Alki Point, south 1/4 mi along shore of Puget Sound (Oligocene of the United States)
Where: Washington (47.6° N, 122.4° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 113.5° W)
When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale
• Shaly sandstone beach
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• A left manus
Collected by H. Hannibal
• Stanford University (N. Pac. 48)
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139892: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 20.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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