Niagara Gorge - Rochester Shale 125-145 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 gray, some brown-gray, calcareous shale with numerous limestone layers. Very fossiliferous with great diversity of fauna. Layers rich in fossils are interbedded with others practically barren
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 81783: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 15.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Enterolasma calculum horn coral | |
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Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Camarotoechia neglecta Hall 1852 | |
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Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843 | |
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata, Atrypa reticularis
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889 | |
| Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
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Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Strophonella striata" = Amphistrophia striata
"Strophonella striata" = Amphistrophia striata Hall 1843 | |
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Strophonella patenta Hall 1852 | |
| Craniata | |
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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Lichenalia concentrica Hall 1852 | |
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Ceramopora imbricata Hall 1852 | |
| Gastropoda | |
Platyceras angulatum, "Diaphorostoma niagarense" = Platyostoma niagarensis
Platyceras angulatum Hall 1852 snail
"Diaphorostoma niagarense" = Platyostoma niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
| Trilobita | |
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Bumastus ioxus Hall 1868 trilobite | |
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Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
| Pterobranchia | |
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Dictyonema retiforme graptolite | |