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
Collected by Packard; reposited in the YPM
• COLLECTORS: Packard. REPOSITORIES: YPM, New Haven, CT
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 80028: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Saccella pernula pointed nut clam | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Astarte banksii" = Astarte montagui, Astarte elliptica
"Astarte banksii" = Astarte montagui Dillwyn 1817 clam
Astarte elliptica Brown 1827 clam | |
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle | |
Macoma groenlandica tellin clam | |
Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"Thracia truncata" = Thracia (Crassithracia) septentrionalis
"Thracia truncata" = Thracia (Crassithracia) septentrionalis Jeffreys 1872 clam |