Where: Oregon (45.2° N, 123.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 111.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nestucca Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Specimens discovered in blocks from a landslide from the south side of Burnt Ridge (Vokes 1956)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by E. M. Baldwin & A. E. Roberts in 1948
Primary reference: H. E. Vokes. 1956. Notes on the Nucinellidae (Pelecypoda) with description of a new species from the Eocene of Oregon. Journal of Paleontology 30(3):652-671 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 201505: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucinella oregona n. sp.
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