Stafford (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (43.0° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 25.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Onondaga Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, D. Schumacher, and S. J. Meader. 1979. The genus Ensiferites, a Devonian astraeosponge of North America. Journal of Paleontology 53(2):475-493 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111893: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Astraeospongiidae
Ensiferites wattlesi Reimann 1945