West of Chazy village, Crown Point Formation, Maclurites Beds (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: New York (44.9° N, 73.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 54.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Crown Point Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• "Middle Chazy, Maclurites Beds", in Flower (1955)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1955. New Chazyan orthocones. Journal of Paleontology 29(5):806-830 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171811: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 21.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Proteoceras perkinsi Ruedemann 1906
 Actinocerida - Armenoceratidae
Nybyoceras cryptum Flower 1955
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras chaziense Ruedemann 1906