Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island 1 (Holocene of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (63.7° N, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° N, 68.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 11 ft above high water mark in marine terrace (no formation given)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, fine-grained, silty, sandy sandstone

• postglacial marine terraces--offshore silt, fine sand and mud subfacies (depths of 60-100ft)
• 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.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74986: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 13.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• molluscs, forams and Thecamoebina only
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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia arctica
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sapotilla
Yoldia sapotilla Gould 1841 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Volsella demissa" = Geukensia demissa
"Volsella demissa" = Geukensia demissa Dilwyn 1817 mussel
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus, "Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium bartletti, Elphidium incertum