Locality 62, Sherman East, Triangle Fm., Sonyea Grp., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.4° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Triangle Formation (Sonyea Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; mudstone and sandstone

• mudstones and sandstones; cross-bedding, wave and current ripples, groove casts, pillow structures, and parallel laminae common in coarser sediments

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 10237: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.03.2001

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
unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
 Cardiida -
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily