Gears Creek, loc. 108 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie County, New York (42.6° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° S, 26.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis crepida conodont zone, Gowanda Formation (Canadaway Group), Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• "Corell's Point Goniatite Bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• shale with calcareous 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 136888: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
? Phoenixites sp.
? Phoenixites sp. Becker 1993 ammonite