R3N (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: New York (44.9° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 56.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Valcour Formation (Chazy Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef rocks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NYSM

Primary reference: F.C. Shaw. 1968. Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York. New York State Museum and Science Service Memoir 17:1-163 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103280: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 25.01.2011, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
"Platillaenus limbatus" = Failleana limbata
"Platillaenus limbatus" = Failleana limbata Raymond 1910 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Platillaenus erastusi Raymond 1905 trilobite
"Bumastus (Bumastus) globosus" = Stenopareia globosus Billings 1859 trilobite
Hyboaspis depressa Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Uromystrum brevispinum Raymond 1905 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax annulata Raymond 1905 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerops canadensis Billings 1859 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurinella latipyga, "Paraceraurus ruedemanni" = Cerauropeltis ruedemanni
Ceraurinella latipyga Shaw 1968 trilobite
"Paraceraurus ruedemanni" = Cerauropeltis ruedemanni Raymond 1916 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus harrisi Raymond 1905 trilobite
Nileoides perkinsi Raymond 1910 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides canadensis Billings 1865 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Raymondinidae
Glaphurus pustulatus Walcott 1877 trilobite
Glaphurina lamottensis Ulrich 1930 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas minganensis Billings 1865 trilobite
Radiocyatha
  - Soanitidae
Calathium sp. Billings 1865