Coll 54 - Hawkesbury: Pleistocene, Canada

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

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Ontario
Coordinates: 45.6° North, 74.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.6° North, 74.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:180 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:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified silty,sandy conglomerate
Secondary lithology:red,yellow unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 2 1/2 feet coarse gravel with sand; 1 1/2 -2 feet red clay; 3/4 inches buff clay; 3 1/2-4 feet stratifed silt, sand and gravel, fossiliferous
Environment:foreshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:66126
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-29 06:28:34 Last modified:2006-09-29 09:28:34
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-29 06:28:33
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]