LACMIP 5843 - Knappton [Lincoln Creek Fm] (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS 26903

Where: Pacific County, Washington (46.3° N, 123.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 114.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lincoln Creek Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Unit II of Moore (1984a)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone

• methane-seep deposit

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. L. Goedert and J. Peckmann. 2005. Corals from deep-water methane-seep deposits in Paleogene strata of western Oregon and Washington, USA. In A. Freiwald, J. M. Roberts (eds.), Cold-water corals and ecosystems 27-40 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91624: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.10.2009, edited by Austin Hendy, Erica Clites and Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Thecostraca
 Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Arcoscalpellum sp.4 Hoek 1907 barnacle
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
"Archivesica knapptonensis n. sp." = Squiresica knapptonensis1
"Archivesica knapptonensis n. sp." = Squiresica knapptonensis1 Amano and Kiel 2007 clam
Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Clio berglundi n. sp.3 Squires 1989 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Colus sekiuensis2 Kiel and Goedert 2007 true whelk
Hexactinellida
  -
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
"? Archohelia sp." = Petrophyllia
"? Archohelia sp." = Petrophyllia Conrad 1855 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia wynoocheensis Durham 1942 stony coral