Blind Sodus Creek - Rochester (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Cayuga County, New York (43.3° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 43.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, gray, calcareous shale

• Brownish gray, calcareous shale

Primary reference: T. Gillette. 1947. The Clinton of Western and Central New York. New York State Museum Bulletin (341) [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 82535: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata Emmons 1842 clam
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
  - Phylloporinidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Cytherina
  -
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852