Where: New York (43.2° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 43.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lewiston Member (Rochester Shale Formation), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• The collection is from the transitional area between the Lewiston Member of the Rochester Shale and the chronostratigraphic equivalent basal Joslin Hill Member of the Herkimer Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, silty, calcareous mudstone and lithified, argillaceous limestone

Primary reference: C. E. Brett. 1999. Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 592-637 [M. Foote/K. Koverman/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12935: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 11.01.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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