Where: Pacific County, Washington (45.4° N, 122.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 110.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• "lower Keasey equivalent beds"

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•Lower member consists of 0-150 m of dark gray, highly micaceous, laminated siltstone and interbedded mudsone. Glaucontitc layers are not uncommon. The Keasey Formation consists of a maximum of 700 m of gray tuffaceous marine siltstone and massive mudstone discontinuously exposed in quaries, road and railway cuts, and along major drainages. The Keasey Fm overlies the late Eocene Cowlitz Fm, and underlies the Pittsburg Bluff Fm. Fm is subdivided into three informal members.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections are reposited in UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)

Primary reference: C. S. Hickman. 1980. Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon. Bulletins of American Paleontology 78(310):1-112 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39964: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.06.2004

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