Where: Suffolk County, New York (41.0° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 72.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gardiners Clay Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• pre-Wisconsin, probably Sangamon age; Folded into the Ronkonkomo Moraine, overlain by Montauk Till

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone and unlithified, silty, sandy, conglomeratic conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81751: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 15.07.2008, edited by Austin Hendy

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