Gardiner, Kennebec Co. - Presumpscot Fm (YPM coll.): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Maine
collected by Packard
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella pernula
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte elliptica
(Brown 1827)
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Astarte banksii
(Leach 1819)
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| synonym of Astarte montagui | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Thraciida
- Thraciidae
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Thracia truncata
Mighels and Adam 1842
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| synonym of Thracia (Crassithracia) septentrionalis | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Serripes groenlandicus
Mohr 1786
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| recombined as Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma groenlandica
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus edulis
Linnaeus 1758
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maine | County: | York |
| Coordinates: | 44.2° North, 69.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.2° North, 69.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Presumpscot | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic unit reported in text. Bloom (1960) assigned the name "Presumpscot Fm" to the sheet of emerged marine sediments that blankets the coastal region of southwestern Maine. AGE: Wisconsin (Levitt and Perkins, 1935), Late Pleistocene (Bloom 1960), Pleistocene (Richards 1962). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No detailed lithologic data reported in text. Text talks of shell beds for Late Pleistocene deposits in Maine described by Packard (1865), Clapp (1907), and Levitt and Perkins (1935) LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be unlithified given age and figured specimens in Richards (1962). | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No specific environment provided in text for individual collection. Richards (1962) reports that collections were generally deposited in shallow marine settings, during sea level transgressions. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
| Collectors: | Packard |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Packard. REPOSITORIES: YPM, New Haven, CT | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia, and polyplacophora. NOMENCLATURE: Identifications based on Abbott (1974) with revisions by A. Hendy (4/2008). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80028 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-04-01 09:54:16 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-04-01 09:54:16 |
| 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] |