Big Sister Creek, loc. 73 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie County, New York (42.6° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 26.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-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 136652: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Carinoceras vagans, Sphaeromanticoceras oxy, Sphaeromanticoceras rhynchostomum, Manticoceras lamed
Carinoceras vagans Clarke 1898 ammonite
Sphaeromanticoceras oxy Clarke 1897 ammonite
Sphaeromanticoceras rhynchostomum Clarke 1898 ammonite
Manticoceras lamed Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite