Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island 6 (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)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; unlithified, coarse-grained, pebbly, sandy sandstone

• postglacial marine terraces--Beach ridge, gravel facies
• 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. Horizon 48 ft above high water mark contains gravel.

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 74991: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• molluscs only (microfossils absent from collection)
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Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam