Where: Nunavut, Canada (63.7° N, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• 21 ft above high water mark in marine terrace (no formation given)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, fine-grained, silty, sandy sandstone
Primary reference: B. Matthews. 1967. Late Quaternary Marine Fossils from Frobisher Bay (Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 3:243-263 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74988: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Bivalvia | |
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
"Yoldia fraterna" = Yoldiella nana
"Yoldia fraterna" = Yoldiella nana Sars 1865 clam | |
"Pandora cf. glacialis" = Pandora (Pandora) glacialis
"Pandora cf. glacialis" = Pandora (Pandora) glacialis Leach 1819 clam | |
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle | |
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea, "Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
"Mya pseudoarenaria" = Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria, "Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya pseudoarenaria" = Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria Schlesch 1931 softshell clam
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam |