Nestucca Formation

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| name = Nestucca Formation

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| type = Formation

| age = Bartonian-Priabonian
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| period = Priabonian

| prilithology = Siltstone

| otherlithology = Sandstone, shale

| namedfor = Nestucca River

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| region = Tillamook County, Oregon

| country = {{USA}}

| coordinates = {{coord|45.2|N|124.0|W|display=inline,title}}

| paleocoordinates = {{coord|45.5|N|111.7|W|display=inline}}

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| lat_deg = 45.2

| lon_deg = -124.0

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The Nestucca Formation is a geologic formation in Oregon. It preserves fossils dating back to the Bartonian to Priabonian stages of the Eocene period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Nestucca&group_formation_member=Nestucca Nestucca Formation] at Fossilworks.org

Fossil content

The formation has provided fossils of:

= Vertebrates =

;Mammals

Mammalia indet.Welton, 1972

;Fish

= Invertebrates =

;Gastropods

Calliovarica oregonensisHickman, 2018

;Bivalves

Nucinella oregonaVokes, 1956

;Decapods

Macroacaena alseanusFeldmann, 1989

References

= Bibliography =

{{citation |last=Hickman |first=C. S |year=2018 |title=A new Calliovarica species (Seguenzioidea: Chilodontidae) from the Eocene of Oregon, USA: Persistence of a relict Mesozoic gastropod group in a unique forearc tectonic setting |journal=PaleoBios |volume=35 |pages=1–10|doi=10.5070/P9351038726 }}
{{citation |last=Feldmann |first=R. M |year=1989 |title=Lyreidus alseanus Rathbun from the Paleogene of Washington and Oregon, U.S.A. |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum |volume=58 |pages=61–70|doi=10.5962/p.330566 |doi-access=free |bibcode=1989AnCM...58...61F }}
{{citation |last=Welton |first=B. J |year=1974 |title=Heptranchias howellii (Reed, 1946) (Selachii: Hexanchidae) in the Eocene of the United States and British Columbia |journal=PaleoBios |volume=17 |pages=1–15}}
{{citation |last=Welton |first=B. J |year=1972 |title=Fossil sharks in Oregon |journal=The Ore Bin |volume=34 |pages=161–170}}
{{citation |last=Vokes |first=H. E |year=1956 |title=Notes on the Nucinellidae (Pelecypoda) with description of a new species from the Eocene of Oregon |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=30 |pages=652–671}}