C12. Valcour Island, Lowville Limestone (Ordovician of the United States)
Where: Clinton County, New York (44.6° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 51.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lowville Formation, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; black limestone
• Pure black limestone with conchoidal fracture.
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 172252: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 31.07.2015
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Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
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Thaleops ovata Conrad 1843 trilobite | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Leperditia fabulites ostracod | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Strophomena incurvata Shephard 1838 | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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Stromatocerium rugosum Hall 1847 stromatoporoid sponge | |