YPM bulk sample - 43 ft terrace, Bonne Bay: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
collected by Dunbar
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana (Nuculana) pernula
(Müller 1779)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Nuculana pernula | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Hiatella arctica
(Linnaeus 1767)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya (Mya) truncata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Solecurtidae
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Tagelus plebeius
(Lightfoot 1786)
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10 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
(Gmelin 1792)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte borealis
(Chemnitz 1784)
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47 specimens | ||||||
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Thecostraca
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Cirripedia indet.
Rafinesque 1816
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Coordinates: | 49.6° North, 57.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.6° North, 57.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 43 feet | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Saxicava Clay | ||||
| Local section: | Bonne Bay | Local bed: | 43 ft | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Saxicava" Clay. AGE: Assumed to be Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown 43 ft above present day high tide level.. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine grained lithology. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Minimum sieve size: | 4.000 |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
| Collectors: | Dunbar |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Dubar. REPOSITORY: YPM; Accession# 4656. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, crripedia, and decapoda. TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abbott (1970). | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | YPM-12 | ||
| Database number: | 75491 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-13 21:16:45 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2008-10-13 21:16:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19909. | 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] |