Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island 2 (Holocene of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (63.7° N, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° N, 68.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 21 ft above high water mark in marine terrace (no formation given)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, fine-grained, silty, sandy sandstone

• postglacial marine terraces--offshore silt and fine sand subfacies
• Fossils obtained from seaward-dipping gravel layer with sequence of steeply-dipping layers of laminated sand and gravel. Fossils from 11 ft, 21ft and 27ft were obtained from fine sand, silt and clay and those from 30-40 ft from fine sand stained with iron.

Primary reference: B. Matthews. 1967. Late Quaternary Marine Fossils from Frobisher Bay (Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 3:243-263 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74987: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• molluscs, forams and Thecamoebina only
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unclassified
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? Trochamminella atlantica
Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Fissurina cf. castanea, Fissurina sp.
Fissurina sp. Reuss 1850
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria emphysaocyta, Lagena sp.
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina inaequalis
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Islandiellidae
Islandiella teretis, Islandiella islandica, Islandiella norcrossi
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium bartletti, Elphidium frigidum, Elphidium incertum, Elphidium sp.
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax curtus
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Orbulina universa
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny 1839
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Astrononion cf. gallowayi, Nonionella auricula
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Buccella frigida
Protozoa
 Arcellinida - Centropyxidae
Centropyxis arenatus
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
"Thyasira gouldi" = Thyasira flexuosa
"Thyasira gouldi" = Thyasira flexuosa Montagu 1803 clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya pseudoarenaria" = Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria, "Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya pseudoarenaria" = Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria Schlesch 1931 softshell clam
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle
 Pandorida - Lyonsiidae
Lyonsia hyalina
Lyonsia hyalina Conrad 1831 clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
"Yoldia lenticula" = Yoldiella lenticula
"Yoldia lenticula" = Yoldiella lenticula Möller 1842 clam