YPM bulk sample - Hopedale (Holocene of Canada)

Also known as Labrador Loc. 5

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (55.4° N, 60.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.5° N, 60.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Holocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown stratigraphic details.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siltstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Packard; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Packard. REPOSITORIES: YPM, New Haven CT.

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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 80134: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abbott (1970).
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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma groenlandica, Macoma subulosa
Macoma subulosa tellin clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (Mya) truncata
Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte banksi
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella minuta
Saccella minuta pointed nut clam