Acrospirifer-Leptocoelia community, Oriskany Sandstone (Devonian of the United States)
Where: New York (41.4° N, 75.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 29.2° S, 50.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Oriskany Sandstone Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)
• "mid Lower Dev. (Siegen)"
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; sandstone and shale
• "mudstones and very fine grained ss. lower shoreface to offshore (underlies Costispirifer and Rensselaria communities) BA3?"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. A. Smith. 1982. Paleoecology of the Oriskany Sandstone and equivalents of the Appalachian Basin. MS Thesis, University of Chicago 1-101 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 601: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
• "D.A. Smith, 1982. Paleoecology of the Oriskany Sandstone and equivalents of the Appalachian Basin. MS Thesis, Univ. Chicago. 101pp."
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| Strophomenata | |
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Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
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Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
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Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Costispirifer sp. Copper 1942
Acrospirifer sp. Wedekind 1926 | |
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Discomyorthis sp. Johnson 1970 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
| Gastropoda | |
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| Trilobita | |
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Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite | |
| Crinoidea | |
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