Valcour Island, Lake Champlain, Day Point Formation (Ordovician of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Lingula brainerdi" = Lingulella brainerdi
"Lingula brainerdi" = Lingulella brainerdi Raymond 1902
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
"Strophomena prisca" = Glyptomena prisca
"Strophomena prisca" = Glyptomena prisca Raymond 1905
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia pristina" = Rostricellula pristina
"Camarotoechia pristina" = Rostricellula pristina Raymond 1905
 Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris Hall 1847
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis exfoliata Raymond 1905
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
"Ambonychia curvata" = Ambonychiopsis curvata, "Clionychia marginalis" = Cleionychia marginalis
"Ambonychia curvata" = Ambonychiopsis curvata Raymond 1905 clam
"Clionychia marginalis" = Cleionychia marginalis Raymond 1905 clam