Where: Suffolk County, Massachusetts (42.4° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 71.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: underlies glacial drift. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: no justification given for age assignment.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, pebbly, shelly/skeletal claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• SOURCE: List compiled from earlier lists based on earlier collections. COLLECTOR: Stimpson (1851), Packard (1865). REPOSITORIES: unknown repositories, possibly local Boston, MA museums.
Primary reference: W.B. Clark. 1906. Pliocene and Pleistocene. Maryland Geological Survey [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 61267: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Ilyanassa obsoleta, "Nassa trivittata" = Ilyanassa trivittata
Ilyanassa obsoleta Say 1822 snail
"Nassa trivittata" = Ilyanassa trivittata Say 1822 snail | |
Urosalpinx cinerea Say 1822 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Aligena elevata Stimpson 1851 aligena | |
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog |