A35. South end of Valcour Island, Valcour Fm. (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Clinton County, New York (44.6° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 54.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Valcour Formation (Chazy Group), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; black limestone and shale
• Thin-bedded, pure-black layers, with shaly partings and a few three-or four inches beds of shale.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1906. The Chazy Formation and its fauna. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 3(4):498-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172236: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 31.07.2015
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Taxonomic list
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| Gastropoda | |
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Raphistoma stamineum Hall 1847 snail | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena Hall 1847 | |
"Plaesiomys platys" = Multicostella platys
"Plaesiomys platys" = Multicostella platys Billings 1859 | |
| Strophomenata | |
"Camerella longirostris" = Onychoplecia longirostris
"Camerella longirostris" = Onychoplecia longirostris Billings 1859 | |
| Trilobita | |
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Isotelus harrisi Raymond 1905 trilobite | |
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Pliomerops canadensis Billings 1859 trilobite | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Leperditia canadensis Jones 1858 ostracod | |