Where: Quebec, Canada (46.2° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 73.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Unit 2 Member, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• three local units
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta front; unlithified, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: C. R. Harington, S. Lebel, M. Paiement and A. Vernal. 2006. Felix: A Late Pleistocene white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) skeleton from Champlain Sea deposits at Saint-Felix-de-Valois, Quebec. Geographic physique et Quaternair 60(2):183-198 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 116551: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Delphinapterus leucas Pallas 1776 beluga whale | |
Dinophyceae | |
Brigantedinium sp. Reid 1977 | |
Operculodinium centrocarpum Wall 1967 |