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
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unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Tylothyris sp. North 1920 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Bivalvia | |
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
"Cypricardella bellastriata" = Eodon bellastriatus
"Cypricardella bellastriata" = Eodon bellastriatus Conrad 1842 clam | |
Grammysioidea sp. Williams 1916 clam | |
Spathella sp. Hall 1885 clam
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Eoschizodus sp. Cox 1951 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |