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

unclassified
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Foraminiferida
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"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis macrota Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark