YPM bulk sample - 22 ft terrace, Bonne Bay (Pleistocene of Canada)

Also known as YPM-11

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.6° N, 57.9° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 57.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saxicava Clay Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Saxicava" Clay. AGE: Assumed to be Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown 22ft above present day high tide level..

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine grained lithology. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Dunbar; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Dubar. REPOSITORY: YPM; Accession# 4656.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75490: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, crripedia, and decapoda. TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abott (1970).
Cirripedia
  -
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Saccella acuta" = Nuculana acuta, "Nuculana (Nuculana) pernula" = Nuculana pernula
"Saccella acuta" = Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam
"Nuculana (Nuculana) pernula" = Nuculana pernula Müller 1779 pointed nut clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte borealis Chemnitz 1784 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Tagelus plebeius Lightfoot 1786 clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Oenopota sp. Mörch 1852 cone shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail
Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Trichotropis borealis Broderip and Sowerby 1829 snail