Also known as UCMP IP16004; Vernonia
Where: Columbia County, Oregon (45.9° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 111.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Refugian foram zone, middle Member (Keasey Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• base of the middle member of the Keasey Formation, corelative with the Ecinophoria dalli Moluscan Zone, Galvinian, Molluscan Stage, Refugian Foraminiferal Stage, Priabonian Global Chronostratigraphic stage, the upper part of the Duchesnean Land Mammals Age and is estimated to be betweeen 39.5 and 40.5 Ma in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Goedert, Goedert; reposited in the LACM
• COLLECTORS: J. Goedert and G. Goedert. REPOSITORY: Los Angeles Museum of Natural History (LACM).
Primary reference: J. L. Goedert. 1988. A new late Eocene species of Plotopteridae (Aves: Pelecaniformes) from northwestern Oregon. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 45(6):97-102 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 206340: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.11.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Conchocele taylori n. sp.
Conchocele taylori n. sp. Hickman 2015 clam | |
Mammalia | |
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