Axel Heiberg Island (Gordillo and Aitken) (Holocene of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.8° N, 91.0° W: paleocoordinates 79.8° N, 91.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• No stratigraphic details provided in text.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• No lithologic data is provided.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk,

• Collections were made between 1975 and 1993 during research prjects supported by the Geological Survey of Canada. Material probably reposited at Geological Survey of Canada.

Primary reference: S. Gordillo and A.E. Aitken. 2000. Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Late Quaternary marine molluscan assemblages, Canadian Arctic achipelago. Geographie physique et Quaternaire 54(3):301-315 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48462: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Whilest low diversity, the detailed censusing and accurate identifications of large quanitities of bulk sampled material suggests that the taxonomic lists is exhaustive for mollusca.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Margarites sp. Gray 1847 snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna occulta Mighels and Adams 1842 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Trichotropis borealis Broderip and Sowerby 1829 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Oenopota sp. Mörch 1852 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinum sp. Linnaeus 1758 true whelk
Listed as "Buccinum spp."
Colus sp. Röding 1798 true whelk
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana pernula Müller 1779 pointed nut clam
 Pandorida - Lyonsiidae
Lyonsia arenosa Möller 1842 clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma moesta" = Macoma (Macoma) moesta, "Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma moesta" = Macoma (Macoma) moesta Deshayes 1855 tellin clam
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Axinopsida orbiculata Sars 1878 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte borealis Chemnitz 1784 clam
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
Musculus niger Gray 1824 mussel