Locality 12, Nanticoke Creek, Glen Aubrey Fm., Sonyea Group, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.3° N, 76.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 24.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glen Aubrey 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 10321: 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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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris sp. North 1920
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
 Carditida - Eodonidae
"Cypricardella bellastriata" = Eodon bellastriatus
"Cypricardella bellastriata" = Eodon bellastriatus Conrad 1842 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysioidea sp. Williams 1916 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Spathella sp. Hall 1885 clam
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Trigoniida - Eoschizodidae
Eoschizodus sp. Cox 1951 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail