Locality 80, Osborne Creek, Triangle Fm., Sonyea Grp, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Chenango County, New York (42.2° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 24.2° 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; sandstone

• sandstone; current and wave ripples, generally considered a sand bar

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 10291: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 03.04.2001

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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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid columnals
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysioidea sp. Williams 1916 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
 Trigoniida - Eoschizodidae
Eoschizodus sp. Cox 1951 clam