YPM bulk sample - Saint Johns (Pleistocene of Canada)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine grained lithology. LITHIFICATION: Pooly lithified, based on observation of specimens.

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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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

• TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abott (1970).
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica Müller 1776 scallop
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle
 Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
Mya (Mya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam