Eugene East (UO 2537) - #11 (Hickman) (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UO 2537

Where: Lane County, Oregon (44.1° N, 123.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 110.8° 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

• Tuffaceous and highly feldspathic sandstone or siltstone which is bluish-gray to olive when fresh and weathers to a buff or orange-brown color. Gray sandstone and siltstone beds may range from several to 50 feet in thickness and are interbedded with minor amounts of sandy sahel and clay shale, occasional beds of conglomerate, and thin lenses of gray or buff-colored volcanic ash

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).

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 38941: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.05.2004, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula ungana Dall 1908 slipper shell
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Acrilla (Ferminoscala) dickersoni Durham 1937 wentletrap
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Neverita thomsonae" = Glossaulax reclusiana Deshayes 1839 moon snail
Polinices washingtonensis Weaver 1916 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Siphonaliidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
? Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Gemmula bentsonae Durham 1944 turrid
Procerapex bentsonae Durham 1944 turrid
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis Weaver 1916 tellin clam
Tellina pittsburgensis Clark 1925 tellin clam
"Macoma aff. inquinata" = Macoma (Macoma) inquinata Deshayes 1855 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta parilis Conrad 1848 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Macrocallista sp. Meek 1876 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Spisula eugenensis" = Mactromeris eugenensis
"Spisula eugenensis" = Mactromeris eugenensis Clark 1925 clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
"Solen (Eosolen) eugenensis" = Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis
"Solen (Eosolen) eugenensis" = Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis Clark 1925 clam