Lick Brook, Ithaca (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.4° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 24.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ithaca sandstone and shale Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• The Ithaca formation underlies the Enfield formation in this area.

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W.L. Fry and H.P. Banks. 1955. Three New Genera of Algae from the Upper Devonian of New York. Journal of Paleontology 29:37-44 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14259: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 29.05.2002, edited by Alycia Stigall

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta iowensis" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta iowensis" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"iowaensis"
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo filosa Conrad 1842 clam
Drydenia foliata
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Drydenia foliata Fry and Banks 1955
lamina with holdfast