SUNY-B 2002 Blenheim-Gilboa Power Plant (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Schoharie County, New York (42.4° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 22.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panther Mountain Formation (Hamilton Group), Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original chitin

Reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: W. A. Shear, P. A. Selden, W. D. I. Rolfe, P. M. Bonamo, and J. D. Grierson. 1987. New terrestrial arachnids from the Devonian of Gilboa, New York (Arachnida, Trigonotarbida). American Museum Novitates 2901:1-74 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153480: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Palaeocharinidae
Gelasinotarbus fimbriunguis Shear et al. 1987
AMNH 43097
Gelasinotarbus reticulatus Shear et al. 1987
AMNH 43061
Gelasinotarbus bonamoae Shear et al. 1987
AMNH 43079-43082
Gilboarachne griersoni Shear et al. 1987
AMNH 43038-43042
Myriapoda
 Devonobiomorpha - Devonobiidae
Devonobius delta Shear and Bonamo 1988 centipede
AMNH 43137, 43138; 2002-12-AR74