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Fossil Creek

US / WA
46.36288, -123.55486View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Fossil Creek is a fossil collection site in Wahkiakum, Washington, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Olympidytes.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Geologic interval
Bartonian to Rupelian
Age
41.03–27.3 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

Fossil Creek, Wahkiakum County, Washington State

Fossils found here

Olympidytes
Aves · Plotopteridae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 206375 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 46.36288, -123.55486

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