Also known as Slip Point
Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.3° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 48.0° N, 113.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clallam Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• SPECIFIC STRATIGRAPHY: From exposure of sandstone with scattered Vertipecten and Epitonium. GENERAL STRATIGRAPHY: The Clallam Formation is a predominantly marine sandstone with minor conglomerate and siltstone exposed along the Strait of Juan de Fuca in northwestern Washington. Marine molluscs occur throughout the 600 to 800 m thick formation but are especially abundant in the lowermost 240 m. Pillarian Stage age, a provincial time stratigraphic unit of late early Miocene age. Revised to Chattian following more recent work [Hendy, 7/2016].
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Addict & Miller in 1974; reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• REPOSITORY: USGS (Menlo Park).
Primary reference: W.O. Addicott. 1976. Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 976:1-44 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37579: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Epitonium clallamense Durham 1937 wentletrap | |
Trochita sp. n. sp., Crepidula princeps
Trochita sp. n. sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
Crepidula princeps Conrad 1855 slipper shell | |
Bruclarkia yaquinana Anderson and Martin 1914 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Solamen snavelyi crenella | |
Vertipecten fucanus Dall 1898 scallop | |
"Securella ensifera" = Chione (Securella) ensifera, Katherinella angustifrons
"Securella ensifera" = Chione (Securella) ensifera Dall 1909 venus clam
Katherinella angustifrons Conrad 1849 venus clam | |
"Felaniella sp." = Diplodonta
"Felaniella sp." = Diplodonta Bronn 1831 clam | |
"Tellina emacerata" = Tellina (Oudardia) emacerata
"Tellina emacerata" = Tellina (Oudardia) emacerata Conrad 1849 tellin clam | |
Panopea ramonensis Clark 1925 clam |