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
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus (Mytilus) edulis (Linnaeus 1758)
original and current combination Mytilus edulis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica (Müller 1776)
original and current combination Ostrea islandicus
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte montagui (Dillwyn 1817)
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus 1767)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya (Mya) truncata (Linnaeus 1758)
Mya (Arenomya) arenaria (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinum sp. Linnaeus 1758
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]