Where: Columbia County, Oregon (46.0° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 111.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: The Keasey Fm overlies the late Eocene Cowlitz Fm, and underlies the Pittsburg Bluff Fm, and is subdivided into three informal members. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: In the upper part of the middle member of the Keasey Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: P. Kirkland. REPOSITORY: Northwest Museum of Natural History (NWM), Portland, Oregon.

Primary reference: B. J. Welton. 2013. A new archaic basking shark (Lamniformes, Cetorhinidae) from the Late Eocene of Western Oregon, USA, and description of the dentition, gill rakers and vertebrae of the recent basking shark Cetorhinus Maximus (Gunnerus). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 58:1-48 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161921: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.09.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

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