1.75 miles south of Shelby (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Orleans County, New York (43.2° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 43.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kockelella ortus obsidata conodont zone, Niagara Falls Member (Goat Island Formation), Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. M. Clarke and R. Ruedemann. 1903. Guelph fauna in the state of New York. New York State Museum Memoirs 5:1-100 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154368: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Only gastropods entered so far.
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Coelidium macrospira" = Cyrtostropha macrospira
"Coelidium macrospira" = Cyrtostropha macrospira Hall 1852 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira bispiralis n. sp." = Loxoplocus gothlandicus
"Lophospira bispiralis n. sp." = Loxoplocus gothlandicus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Eotomaria galtensis" = Spiroraphe galtensis
"Eotomaria galtensis" = Spiroraphe galtensis Billings 1865 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon shelbiensis n. sp. Clarke and Ruedemann 1903 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
"Tremanotus alpheus" = Tremanotus angustata
"Tremanotus alpheus" = Tremanotus angustata Hall 1852 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Poleumita crenulata Whiteaves 1884 snail