Locality 37a, Landers Creek--lower, Triangle Fm., Sonyea Grp., NY (Devonian of the United States)
Where: New York (42.2° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 23.9° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Triangle Formation (Sonyea Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta plain; sandstone
• author describes unit as interdistributary channel sands
• sandstones; scour features trough and planar cross-stratification, load casts, clay-chip inclusions, distorted bedding; coarse grained and poorly sorted
Primary reference: K. B. Macdonald. 1975. Quantitative community analysis: Recurrent group and cluster techniques applied to the fauna of the Upper Devonian Sonyea Group, New York. Journal of Geology 82:473-499 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10222: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.03.2001, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Relative abundance categories: (1) 1-10 specimens; (2) 11-100 specimens; (3) 101-1000 specimens; and (4)more than 1000
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| Bivalvia | |
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Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam | |
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Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
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Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
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| Gastropoda | |
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Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |