A-3280 Elwha River (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.1° N, 123.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 108.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Crescent Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
• calcareous concretion in black shales
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1942. Eocene and Oligocene coral faunas of Washington. Journal of Paleontology 16(1):84-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91603: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.10.2009