Niagara Gorge - Rochester Shale -90 to 120 feet (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 79.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.8° S, 81.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified limestone

• Bluish to brownish gray calcareous shale with thin limestone layers. Fossils rare

Primary reference: T. Gillette. 1947. The Clinton of Western and Central New York. New York State Museum Bulletin (341) [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81781: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 15.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras angulatum
Platyceras angulatum Hall 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea emacerata
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Anastrophia interplicata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia neglecta
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
"Strophonella striata" = Amphistrophia striata
"Strophonella striata" = Amphistrophia striata Hall 1843
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818