Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 78.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 27.8° S, 81.2° 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, dolomitic, brown, gray, calcareous shale and lithified, argillaceous limestone
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 81804: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 16.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Favosites pyriformis tabulate coral | |
Striatopora flexuosa Hall 1852 tabulate coral | |
Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Strophonella striata" = Amphistrophia striata
"Strophonella striata" = Amphistrophia striata Hall 1843 | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
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Craniata | |
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops | |
Stenolaemata | |
Lichenalia concentrica Hall 1852 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata Emmons 1842 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Diaphorostoma niagarense" = Platyostoma niagarensis
"Diaphorostoma niagarense" = Platyostoma niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Dictyonema retiforme graptolite |