Where: Suffolk County, New York (41.1° N, 72.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: no stratigraphic data reported in text, Gardiners Clay and Jacob Sand according to Richards (1962). Jacobs Sand (Sangamon-Wisconsin) overlies the Gardiners Clay (Sangamon). AGE: Sangamon (MacClintock and Richards 1962), Pleistocene (Richards 1962).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified claystone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• SOURCE: List compiled from earlier lists based on earlier collections. COLLECTOR: Packard (1865), Verrill (1875), Fuller (1914), MacClintock andf Richards (1936). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: W.B. Clark. 1906. Pliocene and Pleistocene. Maryland Geological Survey [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61270: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2006

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