Coll 37 - Russell (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.3° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 75.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

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 65894: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 26.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Tethyidae
Tethya logani demosponge
Bacillariophyceae
  -
Bacillariophyceae indet. Haeckel 1878 diatom
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Islandiellidae
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium incertum
ssp. clavatum