Also known as Sidney, NY

Where: Delaware County County, New York (42.3° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 23.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Katsberg Formation (Sonyea Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Beck (1960, p.351): "The massive beds here exposed are a light blue, fine-grained, shaly sandstone."

Environment/lithology: blue sandstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

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

Primary reference: C. B. Beck. 1960. The Identity of Archaeopteris and Callixylon. Brittonia 12:351-368 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14297: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Jenny Kao on 30.05.2002

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