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
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Bivalvia | |
"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 | |
Astarte borealis Chemnitz 1784 clam | |
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle | |
Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
Tagelus plebeius Lightfoot 1786 clam | |
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Oenopota sp. Mörch 1852 cone shell | |
Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail
Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail | |
Trichotropis borealis Broderip and Sowerby 1829 snail |