Where: New York (44.6° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 54.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Day Point Formation (Chazy Group), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• "Lower Chazy", in Raymond (1916)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified lime mudstone and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: The mounds contain stromatoporoids, bryozoans, corals and sponges.
Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1916. The Pelecypoda of the Chazy Formation. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 328:325-343 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171706: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 17.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
"Lingula brainerdi" = Lingulella brainerdi
"Lingula brainerdi" = Lingulella brainerdi Raymond 1902 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Strophomena prisca" = Glyptomena prisca
"Strophomena prisca" = Glyptomena prisca Raymond 1905 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Camarotoechia pristina" = Rostricellula pristina
"Camarotoechia pristina" = Rostricellula pristina Raymond 1905 | |
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris Hall 1847 | |
Plectorthis exfoliata Raymond 1905 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ambonychia curvata" = Ambonychiopsis curvata, "Clionychia marginalis" = Cleionychia marginalis
"Ambonychia curvata" = Ambonychiopsis curvata Raymond 1905 clam
"Clionychia marginalis" = Cleionychia marginalis Raymond 1905 clam |