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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Geologic interval
- Late Pleistocene
- Age
- 0.129–0.0117 Ma
- Depositional environment
- pond
- Altitude
- 165 meters
- Recorded occurrences
- 68
the "horizon accumulated directly upon till lining a pond some 60 m in diameter; mastodon bones were concentrated near the north shore"
"at 165-elevation in Happy Valley, a gently sloping upland area 3 km south of Sequim, Washington (SE1/4 NE1/4, sec. 31, T. 30 N., R. 3 W...)"
Fossils found here
Showing 48 of 61 identified taxa.
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 93677 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 48.05000, -123.11667
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