Sheldon Creek, loc. 78 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming County, New York (42.7° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 26.2° 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 136740: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Manticoceras lamed
Manticoceras lamed Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Aulatornoceras ex gr. auris, Aulatornoceras aff. eifliense, Aulatornoceras paucistriatum
Aulatornoceras ex gr. auris Quenstedt 1846 ammonite
Aulatornoceras aff. eifliense Steininger 1849 ammonite
Aulatornoceras paucistriatum d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 ammonite