Scoggins Valley (Eocene to of the United States)
Where: Oregon (45.5° N, 123.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 105.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Yamhill Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• Age after Nesbitt (2018).
Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray shale
• blackish gray marine shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. P. Applegate. 1968. A large fossil sand shark of the genus Odontaspis from Oregon. The Ore Bin 30(2):32-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 200872: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.04.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Foraminiferida | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram | |
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Odontaspis macrota Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark |