Oneida Creek, southeast of Kenwood (Silurian of the United States)

Where: New York (43.0° N, 75.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.8° S, 68.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vernon Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• Middle Vernon Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, dolomitic, gray, green, calcareous shale

• "The 'Camarotoechia' and lingulids plus the Lepterditia strongly suggest a BA 1 assignment."

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•2003:04:06 SEP environmental call based on liimited lithologic description and overall context of Salina Formation (to which Vernon has been refered to as member by some authors). NOTE: stratigraphically near evaporites and within a restricted basin; periodically experiences more normal marine conditions with increased tidal flushing

• "Gray to gray-green, calcareous shale in a sequence of green, red, and gray shale and dark-colored dolomite."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.H. Flower, R. Wayland-Smith; reposited in the NYSM

Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering and K. E. Caster. 1955. The Pterygotidae of the Silurian Vernon Shales of New York. Journal of Paleontology 29:1041-1047 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26085: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 02.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Pteraspidomorpha
 Cyathaspidiformes - Cyathaspididae
Vernonaspis sp.
Vernonaspis sp. Flower and Smith 1952
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingulidae indet.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
"Camarotoechia" sp.
"Camarotoechia" sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp.
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
"Pterygotus (Pterygotus) waylandsmithi n. sp." = Erettopterus waylandsmithi, "Pterygotus (Acutiramus) floweri n. sp." = Acutiramus floweri
"Pterygotus (Pterygotus) waylandsmithi n. sp." = Erettopterus waylandsmithi Kjellesvig-Waering and Caster 1955 eurypterid
"Pterygotus (Acutiramus) floweri n. sp." = Acutiramus floweri Kjellesvig-Waering and Caster 1955 eurypterid
 Eurypterida - Mixopteridae
? Mixopterus sp.
? Mixopterus sp. Ruedemann 1921 eurypterid
Hydrozoa
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Hydrozoa indet.
Hydrozoa indet. Owen 1843