Green's Creek, Gloucester (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.4° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 75.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Leda Clay

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified, nodular, calcareous shale

• Champlain Sea

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Henry M. Ami, William Dawson; reposited in the GSC

• Repository presumably GSC

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1895. Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, 2. The Coleoptera hitherto found fossil in Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2(1):27-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152573: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Tenebrio calculensis n. sp.
Tenebrio calculensis n. sp. Scudder 1895 darkling beetle
Henry M. Ami 1884 coll.
 Coleoptera - Byrrhidae
Byrrhus ottawaensis n. sp.
Byrrhus ottawaensis n. sp. Scudder 1895 pill beetle
H.M. Ami and A.E. Barlow, 1886
 Coleoptera - Eucnemidae
Fornax ledensis n. sp.
Fornax ledensis n. sp. Scudder 1895 false click beetle
Sir William Dawson coll.