Columbia (SU H36) - Holman #36 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Stanford University Holman locality #36

Where: Columbia County, Oregon (45.7° N, 122.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 110.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: middle Member (Keasey Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; micaceous, gray siltstone and mudstone

• No general geologic data provided
• Dark gray, highly micaceous, laminated siltstone and interbedded mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• USGS collections are reposited in USNM. Other collections are reposited at Stanford University (SU), UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), Cal. Acad. Sci. (CAS), Oregon State Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI)

Primary reference: C. S. Hickman. 1980. Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon. Bulletins of American Paleontology 78(310):1-112 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39958: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for gastropoda
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Procerapex bentsonae Durham 1944 turrid