Caribou Island (Holocene) (Holocene of Canada)

Also known as Labrador Loc. 2

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (52.3° N, 55.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 55.6° 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 elevated beaches along coast in elevation to 265 ft above sea level, even up to 390 ft (Packard 1866, Daly 1902). AGE: Late Wisconsin (Richards 1940).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified 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: Based on checklists of Packard (1865) and Dawson (1873). 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 66501: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2006

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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
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
"Vermetus nigricans" = Petaloconchus nigricans
"Vermetus nigricans" = Petaloconchus nigricans Dall 1884 worm shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Buccinum tenue" = Buccinum scalariforme Möller 1842 true whelk
Neptunea despecta Linnaeus 1758 true whelk
Subspecies: N. despecta tornata
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais occidentalis Beck 1836 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (Tachyrhynchus) reticulata" = Tachyrhynchus reticulatus, "Turritella (Turritellopsis) acicula" = Turritellopsis acicula
"Turritella (Tachyrhynchus) reticulata" = Tachyrhynchus reticulatus Mighels and Adams 1842 turret shell
"Turritella (Turritellopsis) acicula" = Turritellopsis acicula Sars 1878 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana pernula Müller 1779 pointed nut clam
Nuculana minuta Müller 1776 pointed nut clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Cyrtodaria siliqua Spengler 1793 clam
"Panopea arctica" = Panomya norvegica Spengler 1793 clam