Also known as USGS 17038; UO 17; UC 4091
Where: Lane County, Oregon (44.1° N, 123.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 111.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Eugene Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Eugene Formation can be subdivided faunally: a lower unit correlating to the Keasey Fm, a middle unit correlating to the Gries Ranch Beds of WA, and a upper unit correlated with the Pittsburg Bluff Fm. Thickness of formation may be up to 15,000 feet, but probably around 5,000 feet. Most of the outcrops are scattered so it is difficult to estimate their relative stratigraphic placement
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, tuffaceous, brown, gray, blue sandstone and tuffaceous, brown, gray, blue siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Reposited in the CAS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections held at University of Oregon, University of California, Californian Academy of Sciences (CAS), United States Geological Survey (USGS), and Stanford University (NP). Also includes collections: UO 172, 173; UC A-1338
Primary reference: C. J. S. Hickman. 1969. The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon. University of Oregon Museum of Natural History Bulletin 16:1-112 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38938: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Parvicardium eugenense Clark 1925 cockle | |
Macoma (Heteromacoma) vancouverensis tellin clam | |
"Spisula eugenensis" = Mactromeris eugenensis, Pseudocardium sp.
"Spisula eugenensis" = Mactromeris eugenensis Clark 1925 clam
Pseudocardium sp. Gabb 1866 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Molopophorus dalli Anderson and Martin 1914 snail | |
Olequahia schencki Durham 1944 frog shell | |
Crepidula ungana Dall 1908 slipper shell |