Pulali Point [Crescent Fm] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Washington (47.7° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crescent Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Late early Eocene; Penutian stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; sandstone

• sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: R. L. Squires. 2013. West Coast North America record of the Paleogene marine stromboid gastropod Rimella and paleobiogeography of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 87(5):826-841 [M. Uhen/S. Alam/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209633: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Rimella oregonensis Turner 1938 true conch