Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 31.3° S, 44.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mottville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.9 - 382.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: T. X. Grasso. 1986. Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I 457:5-31 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8916: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral | |
Amplexiphyllum sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral | |
Heterophrentis sp. Billings 1875 horn coral | |
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral | |
Favosites alpenensis tabulate coral
Favosites arbuscula tabulate coral
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral
Favosites argus Hall 1876 tabulate coral | |
Artiopoda | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail | |
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
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Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |