Where: New York (44.6° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 54.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Day Point Formation (Chazy Group), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• The entire Valcour shore section is Day Point Fm according to Fisher (1968) Geology of the Plattsburgh and Rouses Point, New York-Vermont, quadrangle.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1905. The fauna of the Chazy Limestone. The American Journal of Science 20:353-382 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172187: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 29.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Plectorthis exfoliata Raymond 1905 | |
"Hebertella exfoliata" = Orthambonites exfoliata
"Hebertella exfoliata" = Orthambonites exfoliata Raymond 1905 | |
Camerella varians Billings 1859 | |
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris Hall 1847 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Camerella longirostris" = Onychoplecia longirostris
"Camerella longirostris" = Onychoplecia longirostris Billings 1859 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Holopea hudsoni" = Straparollina hudsoni
"Holopea hudsoni" = Straparollina hudsoni Raymond 1905 snail | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditia limatula Raymond 1905 ostracod
Leperditia nana Jones 1858 ostracod |