Where: Pacific County, Washington (46.6° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 111.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Refugian foram zone, Lincoln Creek Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• W. W. Rau (1990, personal commun.), on the basis of benthic foraminifera, has assigned this siltstone to the foraminiferal upper Refugian
•Stage (late Eocene). Age confirmed by Nesbitt (2018).
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
•1967). The bed was reported to be 2 m thick, 7.5 m long, and 3 m wid
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. L. Goedert and R. L. Squires. 1990. Eocene deep-sea communities in localized limestones formed by subduction-related methane seeps, southwestern Washington . Geology 18:1182-1185 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 191204: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.01.2018, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Modiolus (Modiolus) willapensis" = Volsella
"Modiolus (Modiolus) willapensis" = Volsella mussel | |
Calyptogena chinookensis Squires and Goedert 1991 clam | |
Thyasira (Conchocele) folgeri Wagner and Schilling 1923 clam |