Also known as USGS 649
Where: King County, Washington (47.5° N, 121.9° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 106.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Raging River Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)
• Formely included in Puget Group, but regarded as distinct due to lack of coal facies. Oldest sedimentary rocks in the Tiger Mountain-Taylor Mountain upland area. MacNeil (written communication) stated that there was little doubt this is a middle Eocene fauna. Probably equivalent to part of the McIntosh Formation of western Washington.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, coarse, glauconitic, volcaniclastic, gray, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• No repository for collection listed, but likely to be USNM.
Primary reference: J. D. Vine. 1969. Geology and coal resources of the Cumberland. Hobart, and Maple Valley Quadrangles, King County, Washington. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 624:1-67 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43340: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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"Ficopsis cf. redmondi" = Ficus
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Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus dichotomus" = Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi
"Mytilus dichotomus" = Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi Moore 1983 mussel | |
Tellina soledadensis Hanna 1927 tellin clam | |
Pitar cf. soledadensis venus clam
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) avenalensis Vokes 1939 venus clam
Nitidavenus cf. conradi Dickerson 1916 venus clam | |
Venericardia cf. hornii Gabb 1864 clam | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
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Cibicides cushmani Nuttall 1930 | |
Foraminifera | |
"Marginulina subbulata" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina subbulata" = Cristellaria (Marginulina) | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Cyclammina sp. Brady 1876 | |
Nodosariata | |
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