Also known as USGS 15508
Where: Columbia County, Oregon (45.7° N, 123.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 111.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Keasey Formation), Priabonian to Priabonian (38.0 - 28.1 Ma)
• Middle member includes 500 m of predominantly light gray highly tuffaceous siltstone and mudstone beds with occasional ash layers and calcaerous concretionary beds. 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; poorly lithified, concretionary, tuffaceous, gray, calcareous siltstone and concretionary, tuffaceous, gray, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• USGS collections are reposited in USNM. Other collections are reposited at Stanford University (SU), UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), Cal. Acad. Sci. (CAS), Oregon State Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI)
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 40187: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.06.2004, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
"Isocrinus oregonensis" = Raymondicrinus oregonensis4
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Gastropoda | |
Scaphander impuncatatus snail | |
Calyptraea diegoana Conrad 1855 slipper shell | |
Epitonium (Boreoscala) schencki wentletrap
Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense Durham 1937 wentletrap
Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni Dall 1909 wentletrap | |
Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis, Polinices (? Euspira) clementensis, Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis, Natica (Natica) weaveri
Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis Weaver 1916 moon snail
Polinices (? Euspira) clementensis Hanna 1927 moon snail
Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis Gabb 1864 moon snail
Natica (Natica) weaveri Tegland 1933 moon snail | |
Bruclarkia vokesi snail | |
Bonellitia (Bonellitia) smithwickensis Hickman 1980 snail
"Admete" umbilicata n. sp. Hickman 1980 admete
Bonellitia (Admetula) tumida Hickman 1980 snail | |
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Procerapex bentsonae1, Pleuroliria oregonensis1, Parasyrinx delicata1, Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) nodulosa1, Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata1
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Conomitra vernoniana Hickman 1980 ribbed mitre | |
Olequahia schencki Durham 1944 frog shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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