Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 44.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• Rochester Shale,Wenlockian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

Collected by James Hall in 1852

Primary reference: S.T. LoDuca, A.L. Swinehart, M.A. LeRoy, D.K. Tetreauk, and S. Steckenfinger. 2021. Codium-like taxa from the Silurian of North America: morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and phylogenetic affinity. Journal of Paleontology 95(2):207-235 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226164: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 20.06.2022

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