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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Vermetus nigricans" = Petaloconchus nigricans
"Vermetus nigricans" = Petaloconchus nigricans Dall 1884 worm shell | |
"Buccinum tenue" = Buccinum scalariforme, Neptunea despecta
"Buccinum tenue" = Buccinum scalariforme Möller 1842 true whelk | |
Aporrhais occidentalis Beck 1836 snail | |
"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 | |
Nuculana pernula Müller 1779 pointed nut clam
Nuculana minuta Müller 1776 pointed nut clam | |
Cyrtodaria siliqua, "Panopea arctica" = Panomya norvegica
Cyrtodaria siliqua Spengler 1793 clam
"Panopea arctica" = Panomya norvegica Spengler 1793 clam |