Where: New York (43.2° N, 77.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 27.9° S, 80.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lewiston Member (Rochester Shale Formation), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• The collection is from the transitional area between the Lewiston Member of the Rochester Shale and the chronostratigraphic equivalent basal Joslin Hill Member of the Herkimer Formation.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, silty, calcareous mudstone and lithified, argillaceous limestone
Primary reference: C. E. Brett. 1999. Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 592-637 [M. Foote/K. Koverman/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12935: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 11.01.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia sp. Miller 1820 jellyfish | |
Strophomenata | |
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Strophonella sp. Hall 1879 | |
Mesodouvillina sp. Williams 1950
Amphistrophia striata Hall 1843 | |
"Protomegastrophia profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Protomegastrophia profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
"Eoplectodonta transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Eoplectodonta transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Coolinia subplana" = Fardenia (Coolinia), "Coolinia spp." = Fardenia (Coolinia)
"Coolinia subplana" = Fardenia (Coolinia)
"Coolinia spp." = Fardenia (Coolinia) Bancroft 1949 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
Striispirifer niagarensis Conrad 1842 | |
Rhynchotreta americana Hall 1879 | |
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878 | |
Whitfieldella spp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Homoeospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
Cornellites emaceratus oyster | |
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Naticonema sp. Perner 1903 snail | |
Ostracoda | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 ostracod | |
Paraechmina postica ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Trimerus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite | |
Crinoidea | |
Dimerocrinites sp. Phillips 1839 Sea lily |