Also known as YPM-8
Where: New Brunswick, Canada (47.6° N, 52.7° W: paleocoordinates 81.4° S, 82.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Champlain Clay Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Champlain Clay (Leda Clay). AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown stratigraphic details.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Verill; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: Verill. REPOSITORY: YPM.
Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75072: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica Müller 1776 scallop | |
Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle | |
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
Mya (Mya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam |