C10. 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
When: Valcour Formation (Chazy Group), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; blue limestone
• Layers of very hard magnesian limestone, fairly coarse-grained, buff of the weathered surface and blue on a fresh fracture three or four inches from the surface.
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 172250: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 31.07.2015
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Eurychilina latimarginata Raymond 1905 ostracod | |