Gooding's Landing Ravine Canandaigua Lake (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.8° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 24.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Tully pyrite Formation, Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Read (1938, p.599): In recent years (the Tully limestone/pyrite) it has been assigned to the Hamilton by Cooper and Williams.

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Read: Small quantities of calcium carbonate remain, but the fossils are largely infiltrated and replaced by the suphide of iron which likewise acts as a cementing agent.

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Read talks about vascular tissues apparent in the fossils in some depth, refering to xylem, phloem and parenchyma.

Primary reference: C. B. Read. 1938. Some Psilophytales from the Hamilton Group in Western New York. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 65:599-606 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14263: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 29.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Arachnoxylon kopfi Arnold 1938
Schizopodium
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