MCZ Cronin Loc. Q-14 [Champlain Clay]: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
collected by Cronin
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Hiatella arctica
(Linnaeus 1767)
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19 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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168 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma (Macoma) balthica
(Linnaeus 1758)
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141 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.2° North, 73.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.2° North, 73.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| 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: | Champlain Clay | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Champlain Clay". AGE: Late Pleistocene (late Wisconsinan). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Reworked till. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly,shelly/skeletal unlithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Pebbly silt. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens. | |
| Environment: | shoreface |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow-marine, fine-grained siliciclastic environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Minimum sieve size: | 4.000 |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | FMNH |
| Collectors: | Cronin |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: T. Cronin. REPOSITORY: MCZ, Harvard, MA. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropod and bivalvia. TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80042 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-04-01 21:46:52 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-04-01 21:46:52 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 26930 | T. M. Cronin. 1977. Late Wisconsin Foraminifera, Ostracoda and environments of the St. Lawrence lowlands. Unpublished Ph.D thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |