A38. 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; blue limestone

• Coarse-grained, dark-blue limestone.

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 172239: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 31.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia canadensis Jones 1858 ostracod
Leperditia limatula Raymond 1905 ostracod
 Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Eurychilina latimarginata Raymond 1905 ostracod
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus harrisi Raymond 1905 trilobite
Asaphus alpha trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas chaziensis Shaw 1968 trilobite
see Shaw (1968, p. 34)
 Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas minganensis Billings 1865 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
"Illaenus globosus" = Stenopareia globosus
"Illaenus globosus" = Stenopareia globosus Billings 1859 trilobite
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites magnus Le Sueur 1818 snail
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Raphistoma stamineum Hall 1847 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania sulcatina Emmons 1842 snail
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis fabaformis Raymond 1905 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Orthidium lamellosum Raymond 1905
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
"Hebertella vulgaris" = Mimella vulgaris
"Hebertella vulgaris" = Mimella vulgaris Raymond 1911
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena Hall 1847
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
"Rafinesquina incrassata" = Dactylogonia incrassata
"Rafinesquina incrassata" = Dactylogonia incrassata Hall 1847
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Stylaraea parva Lambe 1899 tabulate coral