Coll22 - Uplands Airport: Pleistocene, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus crenatus Bruguière 1789
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) balthica
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus 1767)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Ontario
Coordinates: 45.3° North, 75.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.3° North, 75.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:275 feet
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",pebbly unlithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: unlithified silty claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 30 feet cross-bedded sand with some fine gravel, fossilferous; 4 feet horizontally bedded sand, fossiliferous; 10 feet horizontally bedded clay with sand partings; fossiliferous; 22 feet stratified sand with shells; 20 feet silty clay, fossiliferous; 10 feet covered
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:65472
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-22 08:55:41 Last modified:2006-09-22 11:55:41
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-22 08:55:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18789. 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]