Bridgehampton - Noyack: Late/Upper Pleistocene, New York
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Rhizangiidae
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Astrangia danae
Agassiz 1850
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Mercenaria mercenaria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mercenaria campechiensis
(Gmelin 1791)
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula swiftiana
Adams 1852
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| synonym of Caryocorbula caribaea | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya arenaria
Linnaeus 1758
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| recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Noetiidae
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Eontia palmeri
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| spelled with current rank as Noetia (Eontia) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara transversa
(Say 1822)
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| recombined as Anadara (Larkinia) transversa | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea virginica
(Gmelin 1791)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia simplex
d'Orbigny 1845
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Odostomia seminuda
(Adams 1839)
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| recombined as Boonea seminuda | ||||||||||
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Turbonilla interrupta
(Totten 1835)
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Odostomia bisuturalis
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Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Epitonium rupicolum
(Kurtz 1860)
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| recombined as Epitonium rupicola | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Urosalpinx cinerea
(Say 1822)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius trivittatus
(Say 1822)
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| recombined as Ilyanassa trivittata | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Mitrella lunata
(Say 1826)
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| recombined as Astyris lunata | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiopsidae
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Cerithiopsis subulata
(Montagu 1808)
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= Cerithiopsis emersonii
Adams 1839
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Hendy et al. 2008 | |||||||||
| Misidentification of exotic species | ||||||||||
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Seila adamsi
(Lea 1845)
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| recombined as Seila adamsii | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Triphoridae
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Triphora nigrocincta
(Adams 1839)
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| recombined as Marshallora nigrocincta | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices heros
(Say 1822)
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| recombined as Euspira heros | ||||||||||
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Natica pusila
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Gastropoda
- Caecidae
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Caecum pulchellum
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| [entered as Caecum puchellum] | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Vitrinellidae
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Adeorbis supranitidis
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula fornicata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Eulimidae
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Melanella intermedia
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= Melanella jamaicensis
Adams 1845
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Hendy et al. 2008 | |||||||||
| Melanella intermedia in Recent European; misidentification | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Skeneidae
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Skenea planorbis
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Electridae
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Electra crustulenta
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Schizoporellidae
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Schizoporella unicornis
(Johnston 1847)
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Smittinidae
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Parasmittina trispinosa
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Elphidiidae
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Elphidium sp.
Monfort 1808
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Rotaliidae
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Ammonia beccarii
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New York | County: | Suffolk |
| Coordinates: | 41.0° North, 72.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 72.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 165 feet | ||||
| 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: | Gardiners Clay | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: pre-Wisconsin, probably Sangamon age; Folded into the Ronkonkomo Moraine, overlain by Montauk Till | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified silty,sandy,conglomeratic conglomerate | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: more than five feet of fossiliferous sand overlain by five to seven feet of silt, sand, gravel, and what is apparently Montauk Till | |||
| Environment: | coastal indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial | ||
| Geology comments: warm water fauna suggests that deposition took place during an interglacial stage | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Size sorting: | very poor |
| Bioerosion: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 81751 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany, A. Hendy | Enterer: | P. Wall, A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-15 08:56:07 | Last modified: | 2008-07-15 11:56:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-15 08:56:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27607. | T.C. Gustavson. 1972. A Warm-Water Pleistocene Fauna from the Gardiners Clay of Eastern Long Island. Journal of Paleontology 46(3):447-449 [L. Ivany/P. Wall] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |