Castor River, Hawk Bay (Holocene) (Holocene of Canada)

Also known as Newfoundland Loc. 1

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (50.9° N, 57.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 57.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic unit reported in text. From emergent features along coast increasng in elevation to 250 ft above sea level. AGE: Late Wisconsin (Richards 1940). Coleman (1926) favored multiple glacial events, although MacClintock and Twenhofel (1940) and Richards (1940) indicate that deposits in Newfoundland are isochronous.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: No specific environment provided in text for individual collection. Richards (1962) reports that collections were generally deposited in a cold, shallow sea.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No detailed lithologic data reported in text. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be unlithified given age and figured specimens in Richards (1962).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Collected by R.F. Flint, P. MacClintock, H. Johnson, A.K. Snelgrove, J. Wheeler, and others. Based on checklists of Richards (1940). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66430: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia, and polyplacophora. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoratative publication, and somewhat antiquated. However, all occurrences include species-resolution assignments and list synonymies.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Buccinum tenue" = Buccinum scalariforme
"Buccinum tenue" = Buccinum scalariforme Möller 1842 true whelk
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle