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RB-72, Grays River

US / WA
46.39550, -123.56300View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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RB-72, Grays River is a fossil collection site in Pacific, Washington, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Macroacaena alseanus, Isorropodon humptulipsense, Squiresica knapptonensis.

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Geologic setting

Geologic interval
Priabonian
Age
37.71–33.9 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
3
Locality notes

Stream-cut exposure in west bank of Grays River, 1275 m north of SW corner, sec. 33 and in NW1/4 sec. 33, T11N, R7W, Grays River 15' Quadrangle, SE Pacific county

Fossils found here

Macroacaena alseanus
Malacostraca · Lyreididae
Isorropodon humptulipsense
Bivalvia · Vesicomyidae
Squiresica knapptonensis
Bivalvia · Vesicomyidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 226549 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 46.39550, -123.56300

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