Also known as Sankoty Head

Where: Nantucket County, Massachusetts (41.3° N, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 70.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• SOURCE: faunal list apparently compiled from lower beds ("Early Fauna"). STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: fauna derive from two of four beds, listed from bottom to top as the "Lower Shell Bed", "Serpula Bed", "Upper Shell Bed" and the "Fragment Bed". BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: no justification given for age assignment.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bayunlithified

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• SOURCE: List compiled from earlier lists based on earlier collections. COLLECTOR: Desor and Cabot (1849), Packard (1866), Verrill (1875), Merrill (1896). and Cushman (1904), Fuller (1905). 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 61268: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2006, edited by Samantha Yost and Mark Uhen

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