Coll16 - Carp (Pleistocene of Canada)

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

• Clay, fossiliferous; sand; clay, fossiliferous; till

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
 Rotaliina - Islandiellidae
 Nodosariacea - Glandulinidae
Laryngosigma sp. Loeblich and Tappan 1953
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Tethyidae
Tethya logani demosponge
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae