YPM bulk sample - 102 ft terrace, Bonne Bay: Late Pleistocene, Canada
collected by Dunbar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin 1791)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Propebela sp. Iredale 1918
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (Mya) truncata (Linnaeus 1758)
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Tagelus plebeius (Lightfoot 1786)
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
16 specimens
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus 1767)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella acuta (Conrad 1832)
3 specimens
1 specimen
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 57.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:102 feet
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Saxicava Clay
Local section:Bonne Bay Local bed:102 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 102 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-13
Database number:75517
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-10-15 08:19:21 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-10-15 08:19:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]