Where: Niagara County County, New York (43.1° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 44.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Middle beds of the Rochester Shale, Lewiston Member, Submember D

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, calcareous mudstone and lithified, silty, sandy carbonate

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 13051: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 17.01.2002

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