Where: Montgomery County, New York (43.0° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° S, 68.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Rossodus manitouensis conodont zone, Van Wie Member (Tribes Hill Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• Stratigraphy based on Landing et al 1996 (J of P 70:656-680).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, intraclastic packstone and lithified, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. Westrop, L. Knox, E. Landing; reposited in the NYSM
Primary reference: S. R. Westrop, L. A. Knox, and E. Landing. 1993. Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) trilobites from the Tribes Hill Formation, central Mohawk Valley, New York State. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30:1618-1633 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174036: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 23.10.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Bellefontia gyracantha trilobite | |
Clelandia parabola Cleland 1900 trilobite |