Green's Creek (Pleistocene of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.5° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 75.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1856. Notice of the remains of a species of sea, from the post-Pliocene deposit of the Ottawa River. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 8:90-91 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51024: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Saxicava rugosa" = Hiatella
"Saxicava rugosa" = Hiatella clam
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca sp., "Phoca groenlandica" = Pagophilus groenlandica
Phoca sp. Linnaeus 1758 seal
"Phoca groenlandica" = Pagophilus groenlandica Erxleben 1777 harp seal