Stony Creek - Sauquoit RR (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.1° N, 75.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.9° S, 89.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sauquoit Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, gray, blue, sandy shale and lithified, sandy limestone

• Bluish gray, thin-bedded, sandy shales with very sandy, thin limestones

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 82567: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae