ammonites
Barrachois Brook, St George Peninsula (Holocene) (Holocene of Canada)

Also known as Newfoundland Loc. 32

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.4° N, 58.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 58.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic unit reported in text. From emergent features along coast increasng in elevation to 250 ft above sea level. AGE: Late Wisconsin (Richards 1940). Coleman (1926) favored multiple glacial events, although MacClintock and Twenhofel (1940) and Richards (1940) indicate that deposits in Newfoundland are isochronous.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: No specific environment provided in text for individual collection. Richards (1962) reports that collections were generally deposited in a cold, shallow sea.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No detailed lithologic data reported in text. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be unlithified given age and figured specimens in Richards (1962).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Collected by R.F. Flint, P. MacClintock, H. Johnson, A.K. Snelgrove, J. Wheeler, and others. Based on checklists of Richards (1940). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66488: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2006

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