St John (Holocene) (Holocene of Canada)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: No specific environment provided in text for individual collection.
• 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 66532: 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
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus 1758 true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis
"Natica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Placopecten magellanicus Gmelin 1791 scallop
"Chlamys islandicus" = Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica Müller 1776 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Pholadida - Myidae
"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
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cerastoderma pinnulatum" = Goethemia pinnulata, "Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum
"Cerastoderma pinnulatum" = Goethemia pinnulata Conrad 1831 cockle
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula expansa" = Ennucula tenuis
"Nucula expansa" = Ennucula tenuis Montagu 1808 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
"Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis" = Portlandia glacialis
"Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis" = Portlandia glacialis Wood 1828 clam