Locality 69, Watersnake Creek, Glen Aubrey Fm., Sonyea Group, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Broome County, New York (42.1° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 24.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; sandstone

• unit described as a distributary channel sand
• sandstones; scour features trough and planar cross-stratification, load casts, clay-chip inclusions, distorted bedding; coarse grained and poorly sorted

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 10385: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 12.04.2001

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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
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
plant fragments
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris sp.
Tylothyris sp. North 1920
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp.
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid columnals