Where: Ontario, Canada (45.3° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 75.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified claystone and unlithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: F.J.E. Wagner. 1970. Faunas of the Pleistocene Champlain Sea. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 181:1-104 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 65331: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 21.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Laryngosigma sp. Loeblich and Tappan 1953 | |
Nodosariata | |
Globulina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Foraminifera | |
Demospongiae | |
Tethya logani demosponge | |
Bivalvia | |
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Heterocyprideis sp. ostracod |