NY67-18.6 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, New York (43.0° N, 74.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 5.4° N, 95.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rossodus manitouensis conodont zone, Canyon Road Member (Tribes Hill Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed, glauconitic, sandy limestone

• "thin- to thick-bedded,fossiliferous, glauconitic, and somewhat arenaceous limestone that yields the most abundant and diverse Gastropod-Rostroconch

•Biofacies"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by S. Westrop, L. Knox, E. Landing; reposited in the NYSM

Primary reference: E. Landing, S. R. Westrop, and L. A. Knox. 1996. Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Relative Sea-Level Changes of the Tribes Hill Formation (Lower Ordovician, East-Central New York). Journal of Paleontology 70(4):656-680 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174041: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 23.10.2015

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Panderodontida -
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Variabiloconus bassleri Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Laurentoscandodus triangularis Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Acanthodontidae
Acanthodus uncinatus Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Semiacontiodus iowensis Fürnish 1938 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Rossodus manitouensis Repetski and Ethington 1983 conodont