Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island 5: Holocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Thyasiridae
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Axinopsida orbiculata
(Sars 1878)
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30 specimens | ||||||
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Thyasira gouldi
(Philippi 1845)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| synonym of Tellina flexuosa | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma calcarea
(Gmelin 1792)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Macoma (Macoma) calcarea | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya truncata
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Mya (Mya) truncata | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Sareptidae
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Portlandia arctica
(Gray 1824)
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Yoldiidae
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Yoldia fraterna
(Verrill and Bush 1898)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| synonym of Yoldiella nana | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula delphinodonta
(Mighels and Adams 1842)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Ennucula delphinodonta | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nunavut |
| Coordinates: | 63.7° North, 68.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 63.8° North, 68.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 30-40 ft above high water mark in marine terrace (no formation given) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,ferruginous unlithified sandy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Fossils obtained from seaward-dipping gravel layer with sequence of steeply-dipping layers of laminated sand and gravel. Fossils from 11 ft, 21ft and 27ft were obtained from fine sand, silt and clay and those from 30-40 ft from fine sand stained with iron. | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: postglacial marine terraces---near-shore fine sand facies (depths <60ft) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:molluscs only (microfossils absent from collection) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 74990 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Bulinski | Research group: | marine invertebrate,micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2007-09-13 09:50:00 | Last modified: | 2007-09-13 12:50:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-09-13 09:50:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25299. | B. Matthews. 1967. Late Quaternary Marine Fossils from Frobisher Bay (Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 3:243-263 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski] |