Chaleurs Bay (Pleistocene of Canada)
Where: New Brunswick, Canada (47.9° N, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 48.0° N, 66.5° W)
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Leda clay"
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by R. Chalmers in 1886
• Collection at Geological Commission of Canada, Ottawa (H. americanus);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150655: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.09.2013
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Malacostraca | |
Homarus americanus Milne Edwards 1837 clawed lobster |