YPM bulk sample - Beauport [Champlain Clay]: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Canada
collected by Packard
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca
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Cirripedia indet.
Rafinesque 1816
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus (Mytilus) edulis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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original and current combination Mytilus edulis | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica
(Müller 1776)
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original and current combination Ostrea islandicus | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte montagui
(Dillwyn 1817)
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Hiatella arctica
(Linnaeus 1767)
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya (Mya) truncata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Buccinum sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
Coordinates: | 45.9° North, 71.2° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.9° North, 71.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Champlain Clay | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Champlain Clay". AGE: Late Pleistocene. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained siliciclastic. 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: | good |
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: | Packard |
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Packard. REPOSITORIES: YPM, New Haven CT. | |
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Abbott (1970). |
Metadata
Database number: | 80135 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-04-06 21:23:25 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-04-06 21:23:24 |
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] |