Where: Erie County, New York (42.7° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 26.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower varcus conodont zone, Windom Shale Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; burrowed, gray mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

• Collection size represents the total number of fossils minus crinoid columnals and trace fossils. Numerical values given for abundances in taxonomic list standardized to 5 kg sample size. Taxa which round out to zero in standardization listed as "P".

Primary reference: G. C. Baird and C. E. Brett. 1983. Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York. Journal of Paleontology 57(3):417-446 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10107: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.02.2001, edited by Alycia Stigall

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