Also known as New Brunswick Loc. 3
Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.3° N, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 66.0° 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 elevated beaches. AGE: Late Wisconsin (Richards 1962). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Emergent marine features.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 66532: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus 1758 true whelk | |
"Natica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis
"Natica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Placopecten magellanicus, "Chlamys islandicus" = Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica
Placopecten magellanicus Gmelin 1791 scallop
"Chlamys islandicus" = Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica Müller 1776 scallop | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria, "Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"Cerastoderma pinnulatum" = Goethemia pinnulata, "Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum
"Cerastoderma pinnulatum" = Goethemia pinnulata Conrad 1831 cockle
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle | |
"Nucula expansa" = Ennucula tenuis
"Nucula expansa" = Ennucula tenuis Montagu 1808 nut clam | |
"Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis" = Portlandia glacialis
"Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis" = Portlandia glacialis Wood 1828 clam |