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
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 | |
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Archivesica knapptonensis n. sp." = Squiresica knapptonensis1
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Gastropoda | |
Clio berglundi n. sp.3
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Hexactinellida | |
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
"? Archohelia sp." = Petrophyllia
"? Archohelia sp." = Petrophyllia Conrad 1855 stony coral | |
Caryophyllia wynoocheensis Durham 1942 stony coral |