Also known as Maine Loc. 15
Where: York County, Maine (44.2° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Presumpscot Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic unit reported in text. Bloom (1960) assigned the name "Presumpscot Fm" to the sheet of emerged marine sediments that blankets the coastal region of southwestern Maine. AGE: Wisconsin (Levitt and Perkins, 1935), Late Pleistocene (Bloom 1960), Pleistocene (Richards 1962).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Based on checklists of Dawson 1873, Clapp (1907), Bloom (1960). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, including YPM (Hendy, pers. comm.)
Primary reference: H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 66351: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Natica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis
"Natica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail | |
Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière 1789 true whelk | |
Bivalvia | |
"Thracia septentrionalis" = Thracia (Crassithracia) septentrionalis
"Thracia septentrionalis" = Thracia (Crassithracia) septentrionalis Jeffreys 1872 clam | |
"Cerastoderma pinnulatum" = Goethemia pinnulata
"Cerastoderma pinnulatum" = Goethemia pinnulata Conrad 1831 cockle | |
"Zirphaea crispata" = Zirfaea crispata
"Zirphaea crispata" = Zirfaea crispata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Astarte elliptica, "Astarte banksii" = Astarte montagui
Astarte elliptica Brown 1827 clam
"Astarte banksii" = Astarte montagui Dillwyn 1817 clam | |
"Chlamys islandicus" = Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica
"Chlamys islandicus" = Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica Müller 1776 scallop | |
"Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis" = Portlandia glacialis
"Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis" = Portlandia glacialis Wood 1828 clam |