Coll 53 - lot 7 W. Hawkesbury (Pleistocene of Canada)
Where: Ontario, Canada (45.5° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 74.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, sandy siltstone
• 2 1/2 - 3 feet silt and sand, shells in upper 1-2 feet of section. Some shells with valves intact
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 66125: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Globothalamea | |
Bivalvia | |
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Heterocyprideis sp. ostracod |