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

Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae