Sankaty Head, Massachusetts (Early fauna; Pleistocene)
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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Geologic interval
- Late Pleistocene
- Age
- 0.129–0.0117 Ma
- Depositional environment
- estuary/bay
- Recorded occurrences
- 28
DEPTH: quiet waters of shallow bays. SALINITY: no specific data, possibly slightly reduced marine. THERMAL TOLERANCES: inhabits warm waters. PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY: taxa that are typical of the southern coast of New England and father south.
SPECIFIC LOCATION: Sankoty Head, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. LAT/LONG: estimated based on Sankoty Head, Massachusetts (GNIS)
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 61268 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 41.28194, -69.96416
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