C7. Valcour Island, Valcour Fm. (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Clinton County, New York (44.6° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 54.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Valcour Formation (Chazy Group), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone
• Light-gray crystalline layers made up of fragments of shells.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1906. The Chazy Formation and its fauna. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 3(4):498-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172247: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 31.07.2015
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Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena Hall 1847 | |
"Hebertella vulgaris" = Mimella vulgaris
"Hebertella vulgaris" = Mimella vulgaris Raymond 1911 | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolopsis fabaformis Raymond 1905 clam | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditia canadensis Jones 1858 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
"Illaenus globosus" = Stenopareia globosus
"Illaenus globosus" = Stenopareia globosus Billings 1859 trilobite | |
Isotelus harrisi Raymond 1905 trilobite |