Also known as Newfoundland Loc. 2
Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.6° N, 57.9° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 57.9° 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
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 66431: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Margarites striatus Leach 1819 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana pernula Müller 1779 pointed nut clam | |
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
"Astarte striata" = Astarte montagui
"Astarte striata" = Astarte montagui Dillwyn 1817 clam | |
"Venericardia borealis" = Cyclocardia borealis
"Venericardia borealis" = Cyclocardia borealis Conrad 1831 clam |