Bed 159 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 233

Where: Lewis County, New York (43.9° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 53.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Denley Limestone Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)

• Mohawkian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• wave dissipation zone
• black; micritic

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by R. Titus

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. Titus. 2007. R. Titus unpublished collections. [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104591: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma gracilis Hall 1847 snail
[entered as Hormotoma gracilus]
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira americana Billings 1860 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Hormotoma trentonensis" = Omospira trentonensis
"Hormotoma trentonensis" = Omospira trentonensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura rogata Sardeson 1892
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Anazyga recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra
"Anazyga recurvirostris" = Anazyga recurvirostra Hall 1847
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Crinoidea
 Flexibilia - Cupulocrinidae