Bed 6 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 261

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 (457.5 - 452.5 Ma)

• Mohawkian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone

• shelf to basin transition
• 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 R. Titus unpublished collections.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 104619: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Flexicalymene senaria" = Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria
"Flexicalymene senaria" = Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria Conrad 1841 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura rogata Sardeson 1892
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
 Rhombifera - Cheirocrinidae
"Cheirocrinus anatiformis" = Cheirocystis anatiformis
"Cheirocrinus anatiformis" = Cheirocystis anatiformis Hall 1847
Crinoidea
 Inadunata - Merocrinidae
Merocrinus sp. Walcott 1884 Sea lily