Highland Mills - Woodbury Creek Member (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Orange County, New York (41.3° N, 74.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.7° S, 47.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Woodbury Creek Member (Esopus Formation), Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• Onodaga Age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, tabular, burrowed, fine-grained, medium, brown, blue sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot. 1959. Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York. Journal of Paleontology 33(5):727-769 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75470: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 10.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena ? rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Chonostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Eodevonariidae
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
? Hysterolites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae