Where: Pacific County, Washington (46.6° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 112.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lincoln Creek Formation, Priabonian to Priabonian (38.0 - 28.1 Ma)
• "Keasey equivalent" beds, likely the Lincoln Creek Formation. Given the location, it is probably from the lower part of the stratigraphy and of late Eocene or perhaps early Oligocene age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; micaceous, gray siltstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections are reposited at Stanford University (SU) Northern Pacific collections
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1926. The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin 138:1-155 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39961: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bathybembix columbiana Dall 1909 snail | |
Malacostraca | |
Zanthopsis vulgaris Rathbun 1926 crab | |
Portunites alaskensis Rathbun 1926 crab | |
"Ranidina willapensis" = Macroacaena willapensis
"Ranidina willapensis" = Macroacaena willapensis Rathbun 1926 crab |