Point Breeze, loc. 72 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie County, New York (42.6° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 26.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis jamiae conodont zone, Angola Formation (West Falls Group), Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• shale with concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: M. R. House and W. T. Kirchgasser. 2008. Late Devonian goniatites (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) from New York State. Bulletins of American Paleontology 374:1-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136651: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Manticoceras lamed Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite
Sphaeromanticoceras rhynchostomum Clarke 1898 ammonite