Coll 50 - St. Lawrence East of Morrisburg (Pleistocene of Canada)
Where: Ontario, Canada (44.9° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 74.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified claystone and unlithified siltstone
• 10 feet silt; 4 feet (approx.) clay, fossiliferous
Primary reference: F.J.E. Wagner. 1970. Faunas of the Pleistocene Champlain Sea. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 181:1-104 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 66093: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
"Marginulina sp." = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina sp." = Cristellaria (Marginulina) d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Xestoleberis sp. Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Heterocyprideis sp. ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam |