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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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Homarus americanus Milne Edwards 1837 clawed lobster