Also known as Labrador Loc. 5

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (55.4° N, 60.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.5° N, 60.2° 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 66504: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2006

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