Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island 5 (Holocene of Canada)

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)

• 30-40 ft above high water mark in marine terrace (no formation given)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, fine-grained, ferruginous, sandy sandstone

• postglacial marine terraces---near-shore fine sand facies (depths <60ft)
• Fossils obtained from seaward-dipping gravel layer with sequence of steeply-dipping layers of laminated sand and gravel. Fossils from 11 ft, 21ft and 27ft were obtained from fine sand, silt and clay and those from 30-40 ft from fine sand stained with iron.

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 74990: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• molluscs only (microfossils absent from collection)
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
"Yoldia fraterna" = Yoldiella nana
"Yoldia fraterna" = Yoldiella nana Sars 1865 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula delphinodonta Mighels and Adams 1842 Dolphin-toothed Nut Clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
"Thyasira gouldi" = Thyasira flexuosa Montagu 1803 clam
Axinopsida orbiculata Sars 1878 clam