YPM bulk sample - Montreal [Champlain Clay] (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.5° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 51.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Champlain Clay Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Champlain Clay". AGE: Late Pleistocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, pebbly, shelly/skeletal siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow-marine, fine-grained siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Packard; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 80133: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abbott (1970).
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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte laurentiana
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (Mya) truncata
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp., Macoma groenlandica
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
Macoma groenlandica tellin clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp., "Mytilus (Mytilus) edulis" = Mytilus edulis
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
"Mytilus (Mytilus) edulis" = Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel