Bangor: Pleistocene, Maine
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Alcidae
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Catarractes affinis n. sp.
Marsh 1872
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Uria affinis | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maine | County: | Penobscot |
| Coordinates: | 44.8° North, 68.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.8° North, 68.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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
| Stratigraphy comments: post-Tertiary |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: clays | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176640 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-20 11:30:44 | Last modified: | 2016-02-20 11:30:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-20 11:30:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34552. | ETE | O. C. Marsh. 1872. Notice of some new Tertiary and post-Tertiary birds. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 4(19-24):256-262 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |