North Victory & ? Little Sodus Creek (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Cayuga County, New York (43.3° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 43.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Dark brownish gray shale. Some layers calcaerous. Few thing sandstone layers. 3 inch hematitic layer near middle.

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 82545: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
 Beyrichicopida - Aechminidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Semicosciniidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
  - Phylloporinidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Diaphorostoma hemisphericum" = Platyostoma hemispherica
"Diaphorostoma hemisphericum" = Platyostoma hemispherica Hall 1843 snail
Cytherina
  -
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852