Murdock Creek: Rupelian, Washington
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Suliformes
- Plotopteridae
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Tonsala buchanani n. sp.
Dyke et al. 2011
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Dyke et al. 2011 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Tonsala hildegardae n. gen., n. sp.
Olson 1980
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Olson 1980 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
SMF Av 599, 600, 601, 645 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Behemotops proteus
Domning et al. 1986
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Ray et al. 1994 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Behemotops cf. proteus
Domning et al. 1986
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Beatty 2023 | |||||||||
LACM 124106 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Simocetidae
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Simocetidae indet.
Fordyce 2002
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Velez-Juarbe 2023 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
LACM 124104 | ||||||||||
Odontoceti indet.
(Flower 1867)
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Racicot et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
CCNHM 1000 | ||||||||||
= aff. Olympicetus sp.
Vélez-Juarbe 2017
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Velez-Juarbe 2023 | |||||||||
Olympicetus sp.
Vélez-Juarbe 2017
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Velez-Juarbe 2023 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
LACM 124105, sp. 1 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Borealodon osedax n. gen., n. sp.
Shipps et al. 2019
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Shipps et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Somniosidae
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Somniosus gonzalezi
Welton and Goedert 2016
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Shipps et al. 2019 | |||||||||
Crinoidea
- Isocrinida
- Isocrinidae
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? Isocrinus sp.
von Meyer 1836
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Goedert and Squires 1993 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Fulgoraria (Musashia) ellenmooreae
Squires and Goedert 1994
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Squires and Goedert 1994 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Colus sekiuensis n. sp.
Kiel and Goedert 2007
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Kiel and Goedert 2007 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Turridae indet.
Swainson 1840
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Kiel 2008 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Naticidae indet.
Guilding 1834
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | |||||||||
Natica weaveri
Tegland 1933
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Kiel 2008 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Scaphander sp.
Monfort 1810
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana sp.
Link 1807
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | |||||||||
n. sp. | ||||||||||
Nuculana posterolaevia
Kiel and Goedert 2007
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Kiel and Goedert 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Thyasiridae
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Conchocele bisecta
(Conrad 1849)
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | |||||||||
Conchocele taylori
Hickman 2015
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Hryniewicz et al. 2017 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Thyasira sp.
Lamarck 1818
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Goedert and Squires 1993 | |||||||||
Thyasira xylodia n. sp.
Kiel and Goedert 2007
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Kiel and Goedert 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Vesicomyidae
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Vesicomyidae indet.
Dall 1908
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Shipps et al. 2019 | |||||||||
Calyptogena (Calyptogena) chinookensis
Squires and Goedert 1991
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Goedert and Squires 1993 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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? Modiolus (Modiolus) willapaensis
Squires and Goedert 1991
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Goedert and Squires 1993 | |||||||||
recombined as Bathymodiolus willapaensis | ||||||||||
Idas sp.
Jeffreys 1876
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | |||||||||
n. sp. | ||||||||||
Idas olympicus n. sp.
Kiel and Goedert 2007
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Kiel and Goedert 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pectinidae indet.
Wilkes 1810
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Kiel and Goedert 2006 | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
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Scaphopoda indet.
Bronn 1862
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Kiel 2008 | |||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Gadilida
- Gadilidae
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Cadulus sp.
Philippi 1844
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Kiel 2008 | |||||||||
Polychaeta
- Siboglinidae
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Osedax sp.
Rouse et al. 2004
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Shipps et al. 2019 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Washington | County: | Clallam |
Coordinates: | 48.2° North, 123.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.8° North, 113.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
Key time interval: | Rupelian | ||
Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Pysht | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Pysht Formation; Prothero et al. (2001) place the lower Pysht in the early Oligocene (=Rupelian), as does Shipps et al (2019).
lower part of Pysht Formation, latest early Oligocene/early late Oligocene (Barnes and Goedert, 2001; Barnes et al., 2001; Prothero et al., 2001), or late Oligocene (Nesbitt et al., 2010). (Mayr et al., 2015) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | deep-water indet. |
Geology comments: deep sea (evidence of whale fall), cold, high pressure |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Feeding/predation traces: | drill holes |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | LACM |
Metadata
Also known as: | USGS 26898, LACMIP 6295, LACMVP 5123, 5412, CSUN 1578, UWBM C0667, JLG-76 | ||
Database number: | 58964 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Uhen, M. Krause |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-03-01 12:28:17 | Last modified: | 2023-06-27 08:15:24 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-01 12:28:17 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
16716. | L. G. Barnes and J. L. Goedert. 2001. Stratigraphy and paleoecology of Oligocene and Miocene desmostylian occurrences in Western Washington State, U.S.A. Bulletin of the Ashoro Museum of Paleontology 2:7-22 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
5965 | B. L. Beatty. 2023. Further desmostylian remains from the upper Oligocene of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] | |
38491 | G. J. Dyke, X. Wong, and M. B. Habib. 2011. Fossil Plotopterid Seabirds from the Eo-Oligocene of the Olympic Peninsula (Washington State, USA): Descriptions and Functional Morphology. PLoS One 6(10) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
38578 | J. L. Goedert and J. Cornish. 2002. A preliminary report on the diversity and stratigraphic distribution of the Plotopteridae (Pelecaniformes) in Paleogene rocks of Washington State, USA. Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution 63-76 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
55866 | J. L. Goedert and R. L. Squires. 1993. First Oligocene records of Calyptogena (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae). The Veliger 36(1):72-77 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen] | |
64542 | K. Hryniewicz, K. Amano, R. G. Jenkins and S. Kiel. 2017. Thyasirid bivalves from Cretaceous and Paleogene cold seeps. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(4):705-728 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] | |
28454 | S. Kiel. 2008. Fossil evidence for micro- and macrofaunal utilization of large nekton-falls: Examples from early Cenozoic deep-water sediments in Washington State, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 267:161-174 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
24320 | S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert. 2006. Deep-sea food bonanzas: early Cenozoic whale-fall communities resemble wood-fall rather than seep communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:2625-2631 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
70366 | S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert. 2007. New mollusks associated with biogenic substrates in Cenozoic deep−water sediments of Washington State. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(1):41-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
38525 | S. Kiel, W.-A. Kahl, and J. L. Goedert. 2011. Osedax borings in fossil marine bird bones. Naturwissenshcaften 98:51-55 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
46129 | S. Kiel, W.-A. Kahl, and J. L. Goedert. 2013. Traces of the bone-eating annelid Osedax in Oligocene whale teeth and fish bones. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87:161-167 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
56362 | G. Mayr, J. L. Goeder, and O. Vogel. 2015. Oligocene plotopterid skulls from Western North America and their bearing on the phylogenetic affinities of these penguin-like seabirds. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(4):e943764 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
18061 | E. A. Nesbitt. 2018. Cenozoic Marine Formations of Washington and Oregon: an annotated catalogue. PaleoBios 35:1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
38489 | S. L. Olson. 1980. A new genus of penguin-like pelecaniform bird from the Oligocene of Washington (Pelecaniformes: Plotopteridae). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330:51-57 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
19001 | D. R. Prothero, A. Streig, and C. Burns. 2001. Magnetic stratigraphy and tectonic rotation of the upper Oligocene Pysht Formation, Clallam County, Washington. Pacific Section SEPM Special Publication 91:224-233 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
68992 | R. A. Racicot, R. W. Boessenecker, S. A. F. Darroch and J. H. Geisler. 2019. Evidence for convergent evolution of ultrasonic hearing in toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Biology Letters 15:1-6 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
70320 | C. E. Ray, D. P. Domning, and M. C. McKenna. 1994. A new specimen of Behemotops proteus (Order Desmostylia) from the marine Oligocene of Washington. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:205-222 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
61736 | B. K. Shipps, C. M. Peredo, and N. D. Pyenson. 2019. Borealodon osedax, a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities. Royal Society Open Science 6(182168):1-20 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
70415 | R. L. Squires and J. L. Goedert. 1994. A new species of the volutid gastropod Fulgoraria (Musashia) from the Oligocene of Washington. The Veliger 37(4):400-409 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
85092 | J. Velez-Juarbe. 2023. New heterodont odontocetes from the Oligocene Pysht Formation in Washington State, U.S.A., and a reevaluation of Simocetidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti). PeerJ 11(e15576):1-65 [T. Park/T. Park] |